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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
But I can record the times that star players were hurt when they had a goon dressed and infer the rest from there.
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How? You'll still have 0 idea of how many times the star player would have been hurt beyond how many times they were hurt if the goon wasn't there. I guess if you had a two star players of equal value, one on a team with a goon, one with out, over a period of a few seasons you could maybe see how more often (if at all) the player with no goon was injured...........but even then someone could argue that the two players bodies may have different tolerances to be injured, which could be the driver of the difference.
I can't imagine for a second how any reasonable analysis could be assembled with a decent margin for error to prove or disprove your thoughts either way. It all just has to be tummy rubs..........which for the record I agree with you on.
Ok, I;ll stop now and get back to talking hockey
