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Originally Posted by butterfly
Oh boo hoo. Actually you don’t if you just Google it.
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All right, now I just have to manually subtract those out of the stats and do all the rest of the work.
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“My point is valid because you’re too unimportant to prove what I claim.”
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You're the one making claims here, and you haven't supported them with anything except a triviality about empty-net goals.
You have not shown how empty-net goals increase goal differential between teams, and you
cannot show how they cause the number of teams above +40 to more than double from one year to the next, and then remain stable at that level – because there are not enough empty-net goals to do that.
Show even the most basic willingness to back your claims, and
maybe I will bother to back mine.
But I won't subtract out empty-net goals, because those
cannot account for the magnitude of the effect we're seeing.
You have an extremely bad habit of latching onto isolated statistics and claiming them as proof of large and controversial hypotheses. I've seen it before, and I don't care to play with someone who refuses to recognize any rules.