^Matt Fenwick is heavily in favour of losing the old names. Jim Corsi probably doesn't give a damn, he wasn't even involved in naming the stat.
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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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Well the NHL has actually done that and there's been a call for that for a while, but the NHL's stat site is both useless and wrong so until they fix it this likely won't catch on.
Second, it doesn't really matter because in my view once SportVU tech comes in we will have actual time of possession data down to the second, and corsi will no longer add much if any value.
Third, "corsi", "fenwick" "advanced stats" "analytics" and "possession stats" all mean different things. Corsi and fenwick are types of possession stats, which in turn are types of what some people call "advanced stats" (along with PDO, ONSH%, P/60, etc). All of these together can be used to engage in analytics. Analytics happens when you take statistics and use them to either explain something that's happened, or predict something that will happen, on the ice.