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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Yes, the Flames have their own data. No doubt every team has their own proprietary analytics.
As someone who has lived a career of trying to develop better analytics, to compete with others who are doing the same thing, I would suggest that it is pretty unlikely that theirs are significantly better than other teams'.
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This.
It's also worth remembering that its extremely unlikely that stats could even exist which would somehow reliably predict Tanev being better in Calgary than in Vancouver. Statistics can only really tell you about things that have already happened, the rest is always interpretation. Stats can also only tell you what the numbers are, they can't really tell you why they're like that. There's always going to be things ypu can't measure, or don't think of as a possible explanation.
This is really the major reason why I dislike so much of the current fascination with statistical analysis; so many of the conclusions people draw about what's a good trade or bad for example are based on the fundamentally faulty premise that it's possible to reliably predict how a person will perform in a completely different situation using stats alone. It's just not what stats really do.
Decisions like "is Tanev a good signing for Calgary Flames for the 2021 season" will always in the end be an educated guess. Better stats can make that a more educated guess instead of a less educated one, but that's as far as they can take you.
Right now it seems that the Flames made a good educated guess when it came to Tanev.
It's what we pay the pro scouts for, so that's probably where the credit belongs.