The anti-stats crowd is hilariously uninformed, but the pro-stats side is also overly zealous. You can't use a proxy and overinflate its importance. There will come a time soon when the proxy won't be needed and then maybe we'll have useful data. Right now it's just a shade.
But the idea that you can't use stats because the data is inaccurate is also comical. We aren't working out of a textbook here, this is the real world. Data is dirty. If we were worried about working with pristine data there wouldn't be such a thing as statistics. It's also comical how the anti-stats crowd tries to discredit the stats crowd by rewriting their arguments into something ridiculous, because that's always worked in a debate. Something like
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team X will miss the playoffs because the Corsi says so
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is so painfully ignorant that I'm always amazed that the stats guys even have any will to 'discuss' this topic with them. I mean, what the hell is the point? Let the Neanderthals be.