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Originally Posted by Bingo
They definitely have their own data / models and are not using public information (maybe they do as a double check).
So yeah I'd love to believe that Calgary now has a leg up with their own data, and will crush it going forward.
But the guy was hired in 2011, it would take time to get all that data up and running, but the team brought in Troy Brouwer and James Neal with him in the office.
Faulty model? Wasn't listened to?
We will never know I would assume.
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That's true, but they also went out and got rid of them as well. I wonder how much the analytics side played into those decisions? I know Treliving was wanting to bring Jankowski back (without taking the risk in qualifying him) - I think his first 2 seasons were solid, followed-up by a terrible one. I wonder what the numbers were on Jankowski to make him fall into 'too big of a risk to qualify'. He was a first round pick for this organization after-all, and did have two very promising years to start his career.
Seems that these stats are still finding it difficult to eliminate the 'noise' in reliably measuring a player's ability.
I wonder if Giordano has really lost that big of a step, or if playing with Andersson just isn't a good fit?
Maybe it would be worthwhile to try Tanev beside him for a stretch and see if Giordano stabilizes a bit more, and if it does, switch back and see if the issue is Andersson's play style and fit with Giordano.