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Originally Posted by tkflames
I disagree with both of you on this one and I recognize you are only loosely countering the original point. Player individual performance is a poor way of judging coach performance.
High individual stats can be an indicator of an offense-conducive system or high end players that are padding their stats.
Low individual stats can be an indicator of poor play under a coaches system or sacrifice for the greater team good. Have a look at Yzerman and Modano's stats when they made the change in their game to a better team game.
In most traditional team stats, the team failed miserably: PP, GA, GF, Points, Goal Differential.
For the advanced stats crowd, as evident in my previous posts, I am a firm believer in shot related stats being applied to individual players andnot teams. A team of crappy shooters will have lots of shots without scoring, a team of snipers will have few shots and defending a lead. An individual player will regress to the mean of their shooting percentage.
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Could not agree more on your observation and your metrics to truly evaluate player performance. It really does illustrate this seasons failure, and even Tre said it, we don't have the skill, ie. strong shooters.