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Originally Posted by heep223
It sounds a bit silly but I honestly wonder if they would be taken more seriously and have more of a widespread impact if they were called "shot differential, shot attempt differential" as opposed to "Corsi, Fenwick, advanced stats, analytics, possession stats, etc".
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Oh, hell yes. The only reason, and I mean only reason, they have those names is for self aggrandizing. Jim Corsi, Matt Fenwick and some Internet dude who goes by PDO may all be swell people (and by all accounts they are), but their names were used to obfuscate the terms so only people "in the know" would understand it. It's the equivalent of a password to get in their tree fort.
Why are so many of them against the new terms? Because then it becomes normal and that can't act like they're in some special "smart people club"