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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Of course there are teams (most, I would guess) that are tracking this among a myriad of other stats that we as fans are not privy too. They guard what they are doing.
This is about us fans looking at advanced metrics and figuring out the good from the bad, what does and doesn't add up, and how we can use available (if it is existing) data to explain how teams function, their strengths and weaknesses and even try and predict future success.
The data that we as fans are currently privy to is, IMO, an incomplete data set fraught with a lot of noise. This idea that Deluxe has not only pushed forward, but also has shown evidence of past critical analysis on, is a big step forward in tying the existing stats together and shedding more light on this rather interesting topic.
I should definitely hope that these franchises - some of which are worth a 1 billion dollars - manages to hire a few statisticians and try and develop their own metrics in-house. I would bet that this very same stat is something that they have discovered (or read about from the same guy who published it in the OP), and are probably tracking.
Heck, the Wild are all about cross-crease passes (I remember Hrudey saying he hates a PP like this - doesn't agree with it for some reason, but it looked really dangerous). I am sure they are not the only team. They probably already actively track a bunch of other stats that we haven't even thought about.
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I am worried that the consistent insistence on the style of play that the Flames played was driven in their belief in the CORSI measurement of possession that would eventually lead to winning.
With all the leaks on trades and contracts I don't know how well a NHL organization would hide a secret stats package department.
There would be players switching teams that would carry knowledge forward that they were supposed to make a pass rather than shoot and it was based on their coaching teams probability analysis.
There are a lot of ex-hockey players assigned the deep think spots in management who would have a hard time rejecting what they learned 10-20 years ago as players and made them unthinkably wealthy.