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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
^ I also struggled with the presentation of advanced stats because of how people (not Bingo, but for example certain people on the radio, and internet bloggers who are super sensitive and can’t take criticism) would after a game, start using them disproportionately, representing them as more important than the facts of a game.
You know, when say, Backlund has a rough game, a couple of turnovers, loses his check on a bad goal, and these ding dongs start going in about how he drove play, had 60 percent of the shots for, and had a strong game.
I actually found the stats (and the application of them to what I had seen) illuminating, but the people who were speaking to them seemed to have watched the game with eyes closed.
And they still do it. (And talk about single game sv% too. Useless stat.)
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Yeah, advanced stats for a single game are not useful at all.
Last game someone was keeping a running score of Smith's save% during the game in the GT. Of course, after a while that ended because a .928% didn't fit the narrative.