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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Lou loves numbers. Stats don't push his buttons. What pushes his buttons are guys that crunch a bunch of numbers and then pretend to be experts on every player in the league and their value on the ice. Rob Vollman of hockey abstract for example who I'd imagine doesn't have time to watch a lot of all these players he presents his "expert" opinion on during weekly segments on the Fan. Or guys like Kent Wilson who draw bizarre conclusions from stats that watching the players yourself don't support. What annoys Lou is people who don't take into account things that the stats don't show, leadership, character, effort level, etc. Scouts and GMs take those into consideration for sure. What annoys Lou is fans who look at a hero graph of a player on a team they never watch that then go and trash talk about that player as if they know that player's game inside and out.
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Those things are important. I don't think anybody is debating that. But those things are inputs. Any sports' number measures the results—the outputs.