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Originally Posted by edslunch
Minor quibble... you have pointed out several times in the interest of demystifying 'advanced anaytics' that stats like Corsi are just counting things, so they are all 'counting stats'. I feel like the analytics community (not saying you in particular) uses that label to diminish their importance.
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How does it diminish their importance? That is exactly what they are: counting stats, you count the number of events in question.
The misleading name is advanced stats - there is nothing advanced about them.