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Originally Posted by Bingo
I just don't think the existing stat is flawed if you view it as I do ... a count of location events on the ice, to which more is worse than less.
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This is where I get lost a bit. There seems to be a belief that stats are either perfect or garbage. That they should explain every detail of everything that happened or, if not, they’re useless. Or that being a little bit better at explaining or predicting something is worth nothing.
Like, goals don’t tell the whole story. But at the end of the day you can say your team had an unlucky game and just got bad bounces, but losing 5-0 is still bad.
It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t tell the whole story. Not everything needs to. But often they tell the only story that really matters at the end of the day.