3 of the top 4 Corsi teams in the league are in the Final Four.

[SharksFan1992]

I’m genuinely shocked that teams that have better puck possession and shoot towards the net more generally win more than teams with poor puck possession. Shocked I tells ya.

Say it louder so hopefully the Sharks learn they have to actually shoot on the PP.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

You're using a sample size of 2 to make a case for how predictive a statistic is?

I love how some of the biggest fans of certain stats.... Don't seem to understand sampling which kind of makes it sound like they don't get stats.

 

[ijuka]

Last season the 2nd best and 3rd best teams met in the Final.

If there's a rematch this year, it will again be a meeting between the 2nd best and 3rd best team.

Crazy how predictive this stat continues to be.

The top non-corsi teams like Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets ended up mostly being frauds. It's interesting isn't it.

 

[ijuka]

You're using a sample size of 2 to make a case for how predictive a statistic is?

The sample size is not 2. The sample size is the entire league / the entire playoffs.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I’m genuinely shocked that teams that have better puck possession and shoot towards the net more generally win more than teams with poor puck possession. Shocked I tells ya.

Thank God for analytics because I don't think anyone would have ever predicted these 4 teams making it to the conference finals if it weren't for advanced stats telling us how good they are. I certainly thought all four sucked before I looked up their Corsi ranking.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

The sample size is not 2. The sample size is the entire league / the entire playoffs.

For 2 playoffs

 

[ijuka]

For 2 playoffs

Then that's 2 populations, not 2 samples.

 

[Bank Shot]

Thank God for analytics because I don't think anyone would have ever predicted these 4 teams making it to the conference finals if it weren't for advanced stats telling us how good they are. I certainly thought all four sucked before I looked up their Corsi ranking.

Lofs of pundits were picking Washington and Vegas.

And last year lots of people thought Vancouver was legit.

Analytics seems to have better predictive power than standings when it comes to the playoffs.

 

[Elvs]

Edmonton and Florida are two of the best teams in the league? Color me surprised.

 

[John Mandalorian]

Colorado’s the odd one out aren’t they?.

#6. Kings were #2.

 

[WATTAGE4451]

Well, tongue in cheek.

I know that Corisi is predictive of wins and playoff wins over large samples because regression models consistently demonstrate it.

I also know it's not a guarentee. There have obviously been cup winners that weren't top of charts in Corsi.

Hockey is so inherently random, there is no one thing that perfectly predicts success. Too much luck involved.

Corsi is just a way of making shots look fancy. Grantes corsi includes blocked shots, but at the end of the day- its little more than shots on goal vs opponent shots on goal i bet shots on goal also has a high correlation to victory.

It will have exceptions but its not that radical of a concept.

 

[PenguinSuitedUp]

Thank God for analytics because I don't think anyone would have ever predicted these 4 teams making it to the conference finals if it weren't for advanced stats telling us how good they are. I certainly thought all four sucked before I looked up their Corsi ranking.

This is such a stupid post. The point of analytics is to make anecdotal evidence measurable. That’s the point the OP is making, and it’s a good one.

I will never understand people who shit on statistical analysis because they don’t have the patience or capability to understand it.

 

[TheDoldrums]

Edmonton regularly had some of the worst analytics pre-Knob.

Pretty sure this is wrong, they were strong analytically under Woodcroft as well.

 

[Connor McConnor]

Pretty sure this is wrong, they were strong analytically under Woodcroft as well.

His last year they were decent (around 6-8) but before that they were around 12-16. That jumped up to top 3 during Knob. Also, just as someone who watches every game, the team was nowhere near as good defensively. It was a lot more run and gun with good special teams.

 

[PuckG]

This is such a stupid post. The point of analytics is to make anecdotal evidence measurable. That’s the point the OP is making, and it’s a good one.

I will never understand people who shit on statistical analysis because they don’t have the patience or capability to understand it.

Some people refuse to read/understand and automatically revert to their independent “eye test” as if it’s more meaningful than objective data. Boggles my mind.