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Originally Posted by Pellanor
One of the biggest issues with advance stats seems to be how difficult it is to gather good data, this is why you see shots being used as a measurement for possession. What have teams been doing to gather better data, and do you see the league making any efforts to provide better data for both the teams and the fans?
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Quality data is definitely a challenge. I know teams have often taken to personally gathering their own data by hand counting events during games and then going back and evaluating their data with game video. Flames have PUCKS, which allows them to call up just about any event or series of events during a season.
From there, I believe teams are building internal tools and databases like some of the public tools you see out there. This is primarily why David Johnson was hired this summer.