Effect of Goaltender Height Trends on Drafting

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Basic math principles tell you that you round up 3/4 to the next number. Doing otherwise is data manipulation. If you don’t like basic math principles and the data of what is happening in the NHL, maybe you should ask yourself why that is, don’t shoot the messenger for delivering the data to you.

Except in statistics, you shouldn't only be using basic math. You should be using advanced concepts like mean, median and mode + variance and standard deviation.

Also, if conceptually, if you're hinting at goalie drafting, wouldn't it also make sense to run some basic numbers on recent drafts? I'd also go as far to see if any goalies over 6'5 were even available in recent drafts to go with your claim to try and conclude whether the goalies over 6'5 even have talent, or if there is even a decent pool of goalie prospects over 6'5 in the last 10 years.

Some teams might not be intentionally drafting shorter goalies. It's just a specific attribute to the goalie talent pool they have access to.

For instance, I think for Canadian goalies, we've been complaining that our goalie talent pool has completely dried up. I think taller goalies are also more prone to injuries, so they don't make it (ie: Gilles).

I'm actually curious to the answer to your question, I just think your analysis is too simplistic to be considered reliable. I think it's perhaps a pattern, but not necessarily a trend.

 

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It's because goalies today spend half the game on their knees, shot or no shot.