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[RobsonStreet]

A number of models are trying to account for (“explain”) this result using only data tracked by the league:

The best fitting model infers that Hughes is hard carrying Hronek based on the distance between their results when apart, even when trying to control for covariates. I see a result like this and alarm bells go off that this is an overestimate.

Hughes-Hronek, like Garland-Blueger-Joshua, just work. Don’t miss the forest from the trees.

 

[HairyKneel]

No problem with this, overall he looked pretty good this year but kind of struggled later in the season.

Makes me wonder if they think they're going to sign a LHD to play RD again, since both he and Juulsen are right shots.

It's June 20th Tiger.

 

[Blue and Green]

When I was a teenager in the early 80's I had Strat-O-Matic hockey, football and baseball board games. I preferred the football and baseball games and one of the best features was that, unlike inferior competitor brands, Strat-O made sure that lesser used players with good stat averages couldn't replicate those averages if pressed into a primary role. Strat-O was designed to deliver results that would more likely emulate real-life deployment.

Some of the player evaluation models that I see nowadays don't seem to be infused with that concept.