I've been thinking about it and one reason why advanced stats work so much better in baseball is because they base everything around getting on base. Getting on base is a tangible advancement for the team. If you get 4 of them in a row you get a point. That's why basing advanced stats on on base percentage can be so effective.
With Hockey they for some reason have chosen shot attempts to base everything around. Not goals, not scoring chances, not actual shots, god damn shot attempts. There is no tangible benefit for a team from each shot attempt. There is just the hope that the next one will count.
Until they solve that problem they will never be able to know the full scenario
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