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Originally Posted by heep223
Has Ricardow ever actually acknowledged and responded to the criticisms of the +\- statistic? He seems to depend on that and TOI to make the vast majority of his arguments but then doesn't address any responses pointing out the glaring issues with both.
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the +/- is the only accurate advanced stat there is . It takes in account actual events... goals, all other advanced stats takes into account judges events, shots on goal, block shots, shots directed to goal..... all that are open to interpretation.
The whole concept behind advanced stats (Corsi etc) to to generate enough events to make it statistically relevant... however weak base input data is.
this is sort of like using robocalls for surveys (less accurate results gotten fast and cheap) rather than in person interviews.
I have never seen a coach or player argue about the accuracy of calling a dump in a missed shot.