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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think that's more a list of things that piss you off than an analysis isn't it? I even agree with a few. Not sure why that means you had to ridicule stats that suggest the team had more going on in the danger areas that you'd think.
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Well, yes. As a paying customer who drops thousands of dollars a year on this team, a clearly incompetent coach who is unable to actually
manage a roster and
coach a game does piss me off. And while I'm not sold on Peters as of yet, he certainly is a considerable upgrade in this regard.
And here's the dumb thing, Bingo. I don't hate those stats. I'm even prone to using them myself from time to time. But when I look at the issues Gulutzan had, and yes, I look at the results it generated, and I say this coach is a problem who needs to go, and then I am basically told "no, none of that matters, because home plate scoring chances", well, yeah. Ridicule is going to happen.
Because when I'm told over and over again about how great his HDSC% was when I actually suffer through those games and can see, right in front of me, how few actual high danger scoring chances we created under his system, it grates.
I know you watch the games too Bingo, so this is the difference between you and I: When your eyes tell you one thing and your spreadsheet tells you another, you'll default to the latter. I'm the reverse. When the spreadsheet tells me this team was an exciting line-up creating chance after chance, and yet I was bored out of my mind every time I went to a Flames game, I'm going to trust my eyes.