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Originally Posted by cannon7
The funny thing (for me, anyway) is that I do machine learning professionally and you'd never hear me waxing poetic about advanced stats when it comes to hockey. Corsi is classic overfitting and will leave many a GM/coach in it's wake.
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I said this when the Oilers were trumpeting thier advanced stats ~3 years ago.
There is a difference between teams with good advanced stats based on play and playing to achieve good advanced stats.
Both may produce similar numbers, but with vastly different results.