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Originally Posted by butterfly
A bunch of stuff. Expected goal percentage on each shot. Number of times a player has a goal percentage shot of X%+ and passes it up or is unable to take it.
There are so many opportunities to use that tracker in their jerseys (and I assume there's one in the puck) to learn about optimal positioning. I'm talking about this thing:
Instead they waste the technology to show the TV audience who's on the ice on a PP or how fast they're skating.
I wish they'd give us everything and people could create their own multivariate analyses to see what's predictive and what's useless.
In baseball you can get spin rate, horizontal break, vertical break, how often every player swings at pitches in the zone, how often they chase pitches out of the zone, park effects, launch angle, exit velocity, catcher framing, fielding value, even a daily evaluation of how well or poorly an umpire called the game. They had to change the rules because teams got so smart about shifting the positioning of infielders to certain hitters' pull sides. MLB gave us all that with Statcast, which is what I thought NHL Edge was going to be. |
I think first we need to stop using baseball as a comparison. They can get all that information because it's done at a snails pace. Hockey is fast. If you want all these stats during the game, you wont be watching the game, your face will be glued to your phone.
They can add certain things during the game sure, and I agree with the xGF from shot locations and so forth, but its so fast you will most of the actions.