Ehh, somewhat loaded, but at the same time, accurate. Stat sites will include all the stats in special teams situations, but the analytics community as a whole routinely ignores everything that is not 5 on 5. I get some of the reasoning, notably that it equalizes for all teams, and that over the course of a season, it forms a far larger data set than 5v4, 4v4, etc. will.
Also, how does "too simple" represent a flaw? I don't see how more complicated, but with no correlation to wins and losses is better than less complicated but significant correlation. That being said, I do have to concede your point as you haven't, at any point, tied any of your data to wins and losses. So you are correct that determining what relates to success is a separate discussion.
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