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Originally Posted by Jay Random
And the statistical model is built on the programmer's opinion of what is valuable in an NHL player, and how different abilities should be measured, and how they should be weighted. Very little about these models is actually objective, apart from the raw statistics used as input.
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Sure. But this list isn’t influenced by the author’s subjective opinions about the players on it or the teams they play for. He crunched the numbers using a formula, and this is what popped out. The model may have flaws, but the list doesn’t have the sort of bias that people are complaining about.