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pylon · 03-09-2015, 12:20 PM

I really wish advanced stats would just get launched right into the sun.

You will never be able to generate a stat that measures team chemistry and work ethic. Advanced stat 'gurus' write every team that bucks the trend as an anomaly, and every team that happens to fall into the framework of the stats as a proven example. Duh, that's exactly how life is. Sometimes there is exceptions to the rule for unquantifiable reasons.

If advanced stats applied in real life, then only University educated people with IQ's over 130 should be wealthy. Well there are thousands of high school drop outs that buck that trend and become highly successful entrepreneurs because of work ethic and desire.

The stats only tell a tiny part of the story, and I truly believe some of these advanced stats guys, don't even like hockey, they just get a giant boner staring at an excel spread sheet, look at soulless numbers preying something in them confirms they are right, so they can froth at the mouth smashing the words "I told you so!" into their keyboards. They might as well just build paper rosters, and cheer for the piece of paper, and the piece of paper with the best calculation is awarded the Stanley Cup. That's what they seem to want.

03-09-2015, 12:20 PM	#16
pylon Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Jul 2007 Exp:	I really wish advanced stats would just get launched right into the sun. You will never be able to generate a stat that measures team chemistry and work ethic. Advanced stat 'gurus' write every team that bucks the trend as an anomaly, and every team that happens to fall into the framework of the stats as a proven example. Duh, that's exactly how life is. Sometimes there is exceptions to the rule for unquantifiable reasons. If advanced stats applied in real life, then only University educated people with IQ's over 130 should be wealthy. Well there are thousands of high school drop outs that buck that trend and become highly successful entrepreneurs because of work ethic and desire. The stats only tell a tiny part of the story, and I truly believe some of these advanced stats guys, don't even like hockey, they just get a giant boner staring at an excel spread sheet, look at soulless numbers preying something in them confirms they are right, so they can froth at the mouth smashing the words "I told you so!" into their keyboards. They might as well just build paper rosters, and cheer for the piece of paper, and the piece of paper with the best calculation is awarded the Stanley Cup. That's what they seem to want.