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Originally Posted by mikephoen
I completely agree with your main point, but I would like to point out that statistics have been used to make lopsided and biased assessments for as long as they've existed. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics".
Statistics were alternate facts before alternate facts were cool.
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At least statistics are real. Goals, assists, PIMs, those are actual things that end up on the game sheet. I don't dispute the value of analytics but they are a made up series of parameters that only deals with probability. That's not an actual statistic.