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Originally Posted by Bingo
This is where you keep getting into trouble.
If you want to look at simple wins and losses and make a coaching decision, that's fine. You don't have to look any further, but because you pass on any depth to the analysis certainly doesn't mean others have to join you.
I wouldn't call wins and losses "real" though. I'd call them superficial.
It's akin to someone getting heads three straight times and then announcing to the world that he has coin tossing beat!
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A coin toss is random iwth a probability of either of 50% or .5; that is very much unlike hockey games.
Win Losses are the result of the game, the final results chooses the playoff seeds, and number of playoff wins decides if the team moves forward - WIN/LOSS is the most direct indicator.
A team does not win the stanley cup based on best advanced stats - not saying they don't have a place because they do.