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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
It is a vicious cycle but if you want the movement to gain more acceptance the advanced stats community has to figure out how to have the conversation without the attitude.
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Honestly I think the "corsi war" is over. That should have been obvious when the Leafs bought extraskater (along with the half-dozen other guys whose sites went dark). A large number of the best analytics writers now work for NHL teams or TSN/Sportsnet. It's basically mainstream and writing these metrics off is basically non-viable. They're on NHL.com, ffs. Badly implemented, but there nonetheless. The "gaining more acceptance" stage is pretty much over even if some people are still getting up to speed on how to use these things.
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I really enjoy the analytics guy that 960 has on in the afternoons. He has interesting things to say, doesn't trot out things like "the Flames will regress next season" and very patiently explains what it all means. Kerr asks him direct questions and he responds perfectly - addressing the objections. He is a guy that clearly believes in the advanced stats but uses them to supplement how he watches the game.
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I don't listen to radio so I don't know who that is - do you know his name? There are some heavyweights in Calgary and Alberta in analytics. There have been multiple analytics conferences; one in the dome later last year. Justin Azevedo and Ryan Pike, Kent Wilson especially is a heavyweight. Hell, Rob Vollman lives here. If it's any of those guys, for sure, they know their stuff.
I would say if you like listening to this stuff on the radio rather than reading about it, listen to Travis Yost's show on TSN on the weekend, or just pull the episodes up on TSN.ca.