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Originally Posted by rubecube
Bingo, I think a lot of posters are taking issue with you cherry-picking stats and using them to claim the Flames were unlucky as opposed to bad last year, but you're using metrics that are better applied to individual players rather than overall team performance. Most of the metrics geeks in baseball and football for instance use Pythagorean expected wins to assess whether a team was lucky or not because it accounts for overall team performance.
It hasn't been adjusted for hockey completely but it's still pretty accurate and it has the Flames expected win total from last year as 38, which basically means they were unlucky to win 1 extra game. In other words, they are exactly who their record says they are.
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A list like I compiled is all the underlying metrics. I'm not cherry picking anything.