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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
There are certainly fans that are overly sympathetic to underlying numbers, who are in the minority compared to what I would call the majority of fans that now respect the advanced stats as a whole, but still realize they need to be viewed as an additive tool to analysis.
Beating the drum on the former is totally fine with me, but acting shocked whenever someone disagrees with that notion is a bit over the top. The bottom line is the Flames have been failing in the standings more than they've been winning for a long time now and this is all that matters in the success department for any fan. Full stop.
I personally can't bare anymore talk centered around how the team is dominating possession but was just unlucky like last season. At some point you have to call a spade a spade and own it as a franchise. If Peter's can't get the team into the playoffs as a start, this group simply isn't anywhere near good enough and should probably be torn down.
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Summed up my feelings on the subject.
It is funny. The greatest success the flames have had in recent years was in a "unsustainable" system. But it doesn't fit with the advanced stats community to accept that success in this sport is not driven by numbers. It's driven by will and heart. You can have the perfect system but if your players play like robots like they did in gullys system, they won't go far.
I get it. So many people watch the sport, and everyone needs a way to stay interacted with it by many means. If advanced stats keeps people around, so be it. I don't need them to watch the game or tell what's working and what is not. Because most time my perception is that if your team is winning the Corsi game, they're losing where it matters most.