I don't believe there are many if any analytics writers (or any who anyone listens to) who could be accused of taking the view that any success not resulting from possession is based on luck.
I don't view Lambert as an analytics writer. He does use some advanced stats to make points, but that's not really what he writes about. Guys like Drance (who barely writes about this stuff anymore) and Yost clearly are. Mirtle's a bit of a weird case because he values the statistics and uses them to supplement his views but isn't really an "analytics guy". Of these guys, only Yost is an analytics guy in the vein of Rob Vollman or Garrett Hohl or Tyler Dellow. The difference, for me, is that Mirtle and Lambert write opinion pieces that rely to some extent on stats commonly associated with analytics, as opposed to actually asking a general question (e.g. "how much impact does faceoff winning percentage have on the outcome of games?") and trying to answer it.
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