Around the League 2019-2024 Edition
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Preston
MBow30 alt account
Looking at the last ten years of cup winners... I disagree with this immensely. Excel spreadsheets are an incredible tool. The most important to building a hockey team, free of bias.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
no...but someone who knows how to read a spreadsheet gives themselves a pretty nice edge
They are a great tool if your team is complete and has talent to compete
I don’t need Microsoft to assist that Tampa , Kings or Hawks had good stats when winning a cup
Edmunson has nice stats but a 5th D isn’t helping me much when most of my top 6 can barely score 10 goals
hockeylover
Well-known member
There's no such thing as a good player on a bad team then? I don't get what you're saying here.
My point is this obsession with analytics has to be taken with a grain of salt
A shit team like Buffalo will have poor team and many individual stats
Put Dahlin in Toronto , TBay or other really good teams his numbers look better
Too many moving parts from game to game and shift to shift to simply suggest analytics rule
zeke
Well-known member
That's why modern analytics are so superior than the traditional ones - the hugely larger number of data points let's us separate individual performance from team effects in a significant way.
This is how you pull a Petry out of Edmonton or a Toffoli from LA - by being able to adjust for team effects and seeing that these are underrated players.
hockeylover
Well-known member
Nah. This is dumb. If you're simply using the eye test, most players on a shit team are going to look bad. More data provides the context needed.
hockeylover
Well-known member
No idea how they were going to make an entire team that just had COVID play 19 games in 30 days. Mind you, pro athletes do a lot of things that amaze me. It takes a lot out of you though.
Apparently. I thought he was total trash... but they claim he's decent. I don't think I've watched a Red Wings game all year.
hockeylover
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LeafGm
Well-known member
Seems like a big game of poker.
The sellers are hanging on to the big assets as long as possible hoping someone will crack and meet their price.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
The best bit for me is that they fired Julien largely because Bergevin thought he did a much better job in the off-season than he really did, and the media stroked him hard for it. Julien had them playing over their heads, again.
Volcanologist
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The only names we've heard rumoured that I'd pay a first round pick for are Rakell and Ekholm. maybe Kuemper if he'd stayed healthy.