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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
In short, I trust Bingo's conclusion far more than yours because he did the work to understand the problem objectively. Just because you were too lazy to support your conclusion doesn't mean we should give it the same validity.
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The Flames have the 3rd best CF and 2nd best CF%. They have the best FF and 4th best FF%. They are 6th in shots per game and 7th in net shots per game. You can harp on these stats all you want, but when you look at the standings, these stats don't seem to add up. They should be near the top of the standings if this data were useful. Doing lots of work to understand corsi and fenwick, and concluding they were unlucky doesn't make the analysis better. Saying I'm lazy because I don't type out an essay to ensure that you can understand it, is false.
Here's a chart we can both agree on:
Here's my conclusion. The red snake is off the bottom of the grid. The team is nowhere near the standings. The games are painful to watch. The powerplay is effing abysmal. The standings reflect all of these things. I don't think I need to take a GB of data to explain that, and now that his conclusion matches my conclusion, we are now saying I got lucky. I disagree. I arrived at it a lot earlier because I was able to eliminate a lot of the noise, and focus on what mattered.