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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Well, you certainly don't have any idea unless you find out what he is actually doing. And to do that, you have to realize that he isn't just cooking up some weird stat on his own, but participating in serious work being done by a lot of different analysts.
GSAx is a mainstream stat now, and if you don't bother to find out about it, why it works, and to what extent, you have no business dismissing it. |
I am not dismissing their efforts, or even their methodology. I am saying that - because hockey is what it is - even the inputs are only so reliable. And there is no set, or correct, weighting for the inputs. And most importantly, there is no way to test the validity of the output.
So peoples' conclusion is exactly what Bingo always says "it's not perfect, but it's the best we have'. But the problem is that people treat is like gospel, quoting the numbers as proof, because it is the only number they have.
But we have no idea whether it truly represents what it is trying to represent.
anyway, enough on this.