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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
um no, arbitrary means: "based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system", literally the opposite of what took place here.
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Arbitrary means quite a few things. It also means "based on individual discretion".
Just because someone says that "these are the important numbers" doesn't make it so. This is one of the major misunderstandings of the whole fancy stats community.
Just having a system is not the same as "not arbitrary", and even further from "objective fact".
Stats like "bad goals" can by definition only be a arbitrary because "bad" has no fixed meaning and it's not a thing you can measure. You have to just make up some definition of bad, which is probably not going to be much better than someone else's definition of bad.
"Most goals scored" is not an arbitrary stat. "Best goalscorer" is.
SV% is not an arbitrary stat, "bad goals" is.