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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
This is where a disconnect is forming with advanced metrics to me. The empirical data SHOULD be showing something different than what we as fans are seeing.
So, do we believe in the empirical data provided and find some relief in that the system implemented is indeed a good system that the Flames should continue with, and that it is predicting a turn-around for next season?
Or perhaps the empirical data is incomplete as we know it, and that the 'eye-test' not aligning with the advanced metrics is providing enough of a discrepancy whereby we should be questioning the data in the first place, and/or looking for differing/additional data?
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Yes, it's very incomplete.
There is this concept. It is called the information shadow. When you amass data about anything at all, you're actually just making a representation of that thing. The problem is that people take that set of data and presume that it is the thing itself, when all you really have is a shadow.
It's one of those fancy IT things that everybody ignores.