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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Since you've somehoe turned this into an ad hominem - let me put it like this:
GSAA over a large sample size is probably useful to prescribe future results, although goalies still have high variance. It is probably the best stat to compare goalies' value.
GSAA over a small sample size sort of describes past results, but can be easily skewed.
QS over a multi-season sample size is useful to describe (but not predict) consistency. It won't tell you if a goalie can pitch 20 shutouts in a season, but it can tell you if a goalie can perform to a league average level with better consistency than other goalies.
QS over a small sample size is ONLY to describe the results over a small sample size, while taking out the "did the skaters score more goals than the goalie allowed" part out of wins - nothing more, nothing less.
They all describe different things. Since we're nine games into Markstrom's season, I think QS is the only stat useful to describe those nine games.
I am not using not to predict the next 50 games.
I am simply saying that Markstrom has not been very consistent so far, across nine games, that he deserves to be placed on a pedestal.
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Quality start works better to me if you exclude overtime. No idea if that changes the end results, but Markstrom's given up 3 OT goals when save percentages are much lower.