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Originally Posted by Kovaz
That's a blatant misrepresentation of Bingo's point
Generally, people who are in plane crashes die or are severely injured. Sometimes, people walk away without a scratch, but that doesn't mean that the statistics around plane crashes are useless.
Generally, teams that out-corsi their opponents are successful. Sometimes, teams with strong corsi struggle, but that doesn't mean the correlation between corsi and winning is meaningless.
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The further out we get the further it actually does appear meaningless. All it takes is a few Eakins Oilers or Gulutzan Flames playing for Corsi and possession to render it irrelevant.
And even if you take corsi as relevant, it was pretty clear early on that it wasn't to us. So why are we still pretending that it's valuable information to last years Flames?
This stuff is all so boring. Advanced stats are fine as an addition, but when we're consistently being told that the results shouldn't be what they are because of them, and the results continue being what they are for multiple seasons, they really are just noise and they've jumped the shark.