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Originally Posted by transplant99
Well from their own website...
"a metric that attempts to assign a total value to each player,"
When you are attempting something, its is clearly non-definitive.
It can generalize areas, and it can point to liklihoods and possibilities/probabilities, but it is still leaves room for complete misses.
Im not having the fancy stats argument again though. Its been done a thousand times.
Hockey is played in a very fluid arena with variables of humans making different decisions and on a surface that is not constant. Trying to make it static with spread sheets just isnt something that will ever happen.
they have some value to see if what you are observing is backed up by all kinds of statistics or even close. It allows those who do this for a living to have some checks and balances against their own possible biases.
It is not anything more than that however.
Your stance on Mangiapane is a perfect example actually.
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And all those other guys mentioned have had big seasons in the past to earn those contract, plus they play a pretty regular basis against other teams top defence and checking lines. Mang has played mostly 3rd line opponents and some 2nd line. I love his work ethic and really hope he signs for $4.5 or less like Iafallo did.