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Originally Posted by stone hands
Advanced stats get a bad rap around here ever since they accurately predicted the miracle season was a mirage and extremely statistically unlikely to be repeated
Using anything to back your opinion up outside of the ubiquitous eye test gets you quite a ribbing around these parts
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Actually, advanced stats got a bad rap when their proponents spent six months predicting the 2014-15 Flames would fall off a cliff any moment now and it never happened.
Then, the following season, with a whole new set of factors beyond corsi in play, those same people came back and yelled "I TOLD YOU SO!", as if a new season with new players, new factors, mental let downs, changes in other teams, etc., didn't actually matter. All that mattered to these people was that they were so desperate to be right that they leaped at their first opportunity to do so, even if they looked foolish in the end.