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Originally Posted by Bingo
Completely agree.
And I look forward to the improvement in separating a simple count into shades of grey.
But can't we also agree that simple count of an event (shot from the most dangerous place on the ice) is a bad thing when it's in front of your goalie, and if you give up more of those than others you probably will get scored on more often?
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It's more often a bad thing than a random shot from elsewhere. But I would argue that a shot from a slightly less dangerous spot immediately following a cross-ice pass, or a shot taken from anywhere in front of the net immediately after the goaltender lost the puck behind the net, would be more dangerous.
It's hard to find the right balance of complexity with stats. Basic stats, like shots on goal, clearly miss too much. Highly convoluted and derived stats lose their connection with what is happening in real time, and represent increasingly abstract and hard to understand constructs.