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Old 02-01-2024, 12:10 PM   #1276
Enoch Root
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Originally Posted by butterfly View Post
I don't really understand how the control group can be all teams when the hypothesis is that Cup winning teams have identified having an RH C as a desirable thing, and ostensibly bad teams do not know this.

38.1% of NHL players were RH in 2018: https://www.purehockey.com/c/why-are...rs-left-handed

If we assume that the distribution of handedness is uniform across all positions, there is a 14.7% chance to randomly have 4 centers who are all LH, so 85.3% of teams would have at least one RH C.
The control group is the null hypothesis, not the opposite.

The control group is all teams. If cup-winning teams have more R-shooting Cs than the population at large, then there is a case to be made that R-shooting Cs are helpful

Also, I don't think we can assume that it is evenly distributed among positions because, with fewer righties, they tend to end up as RW and R-Ds

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