Agreed with SP, it's not you in particular, frankly you've made some extremely valid points. But the most vocal and prominent of the advanced stats crowd are the ones who imperiously flaunt their metrics as the end all be all and pass everything else off as luck and randomness. I mean honestly, have people like lambert ever played a bloody hockey game.
This one pretty much took the cake for me, Vancouver fan from the other boards
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it's not. it's that unsustainable play has no preordained start and end time. play enough games of skill with a chance element (like poker or backgammon) and these things will become very clear. you will see luck last a lot longer than it has any right to, and you will see others take bad beat after bad beat after bad beat (or joker after joker) no matter how well they play.
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Seriously equated poker to hockey, /sigh