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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Expected goals takes into account the quality of each shot & chance.
Flames were arguably the better of the teams for 2 of the 3 periods. |
No, there are statistical models behind expected goals that are based on lots of data including shot origin but NONE are actual shot placement, which are pretty much actually the most important thing for the goaltender
I’ve looked at the stats six ways from Sunday and understand them just fine
It all comes out in the wash and works out in the long term, statistically, but is insignificant much of the time in small sample sizes. That’s how statistics, probabilities and confidence intervals work
“__ is expected to be true 92 percent of the time, 19 times out of 20”
Sorry. Unless you are disingenuously reliant on the word arguably, Username doesn’t check out