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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
I would say that NHL teams in general depending on the team have only started to get past what the fans are doing analytics wise in the past 2-3 seasons.
A lot of the current analytics guys in the NHL are guys that were fans with sites that got bought out by NHL teams. Five years ago if an NHL team had an Analytics "Department" it was one guy with a laptop.
That is clearly changing in a big way. He are seeing more and more analytic based GM hires.
Clearly the proponents of advanced stats were barking up the right tree and have won the day.
I can understand fans being critical of individual advanced stats, and take issue with some of the conclusions, but I saw a lot of fans that completely rejected hockey analytics as a whole and history has shown those fans were flat out wrong.
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Never seen people complaining about the stats themselves. It always the conclusions that people derive from them that's the issue.
And as Brad said, the level of analytics that we have access to are borderline useless.