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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
THat is a strange way to group their respective results.
Farabee would be 4.1 goals per 20 shots
Marner would be 5.78 goals per 20 shots
That seems like a noticeable difference to me especially since high danger chances are not just shots from the slot.
Dig just a fraction deeper and Farabee's numbers over three years are buoyed by his HD scoring % in 2023/24 when it was 27%. That was better than Draisaitl, McDavid or Matthews that year. That kind of seems like luck to me.
You can find stats that prove a lot of different points. One of the purposes of this stuff is trying to predict future performance and I don't see Farabee as much of a goal scorer.
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Fair. But that is why it is useful to use 3 years - because there will be hot and cold streaks within the data (large sample size).
Rhett44 did Rhett44 things, simply making up numbers to try and validate his argument (suggesting Marner would score 8 times as often as Farabee), and PepriFree correctly shot that down with actual numbers and a real argument.
Your rebuttal was valid, then you add a completely subjective 'I don't think Farabee is much of a goal scorer' comment, which seems odd when discussing the validity of the statistics