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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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I look forward to a day where AI can track time and space, and the quality of the shot (vs rolling puck, for instance), and factor all those things into the event. And for it to continue to learn, and improve on itself to the point where it can actually measure HD chances in a meaningful way. And when that happens, I will love the stat.
But that day is not now.
As to the last paragraph, yes we can all agree that chances against your goalie are bad, and more of them are probably more bad. But that does not justify or validate the stat, which is doing a pretty lousy job of quantifying what it is trying to quantify, and representing how individual players faired, over the course of a game.