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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The problem is knowing a guy who outpossesses on team A playing their system and playing with the other players on that team will carry all that over to team B with a different system and different players.
Just to pick a random sample - the top Corsi guy on the Penguins this year is Chris Kunitz. If the Flames decide to use one of their extra picks to trade for the guy, do those possession skills carry over to the Flames? What about guys like Dimitri Jaskin? Jakub Kindl? etc. The Oilers went out and spent boatloads of cash on Benoit Pouliet with his sweet Corsi and he's a pretty middling player for them.
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This is a context issue. A couple of guys are tinkering with methods to adjust corsi/fenwick for variables like quality of competition/teammates, icetime, etc, with the intent of creating something more useful than relative corsi/fenwick %. These ideas are from bulletproof, but I found the methodology interesting.
http://nhlnumbers.com/2014/7/19/dcorsi-introductions
http://ownthepuck.com/usageadjustedcorsi/