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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
A team will go through hot stretches where they score lots and dry spells when they don't.
A goaltender will get and carry a team, and then cool off.
For the most part the game is cyclical like that.
'Corsi' tends to be more stable; in large part immune to random streaks or events.
It only makes logical sense that if you out shooting and outchance the opposition, you will tend to win more. It's a fools game to argue against that.
That's how I see the pro analytics argument as completely valid.
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I'm not arguing against analytics, I agree they should be used, especially by management of the team, along with many other things.
I also agree with what you said above, but does Corsi actually measure if you "outchance" your opposition? I honestly don't know, but I assumed it used shots as a proxy for chances and didn't differentiate on where the shots came from, or if a chance occurred that did not result in a shot.