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I agree, I hate fancy stats - unless it’s praising my guys, then it‘s good gas.
Traded Erik Brännström - D - Part III
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Micklebot
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Eh, what it's evidence of is more that those pairing are being deployed in situations where they can be successful.
If you choose to interpret them as a means to rank defensive pairings the way the tweet appears to be doing, that's a user error.
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L'Aveuglette
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Yeah it looks like you haven't watched Sens games in the last month.
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The tweet is literally "Best defence pairings with 50 minutes played" with an image attached. Choosing that to mean anything other than that, such as being deployed in situations where they can be successful, is a user error.
Assen na yo.
Micklebot
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The tweet made the user error. You claimed that the tweet was evidence the stats are useless, when in reality they were just being misused.
So your argument boiled down to because that guy tweeting doesn't know how to interpret the data, the data is useless. Seems a bit backwards to me.
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What is the data useful for? Rating their effectiveness on how they're deployed? How is that useful? It says nothing when a pairing like Nurse-Ceci, whom I strongly suspect plays a huge amount with McDavid/Daisaitl, is rated highly but with those 2 MVPs hugely influencing the numbers.
The numbers also don't account for such a small sample size so far this season.
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Lmao. Yeah, you're right, Brannstrom has no limitations to his game. He is an elite defensive player who can't be physically beat.
I have zero respect for your opinion, which is why I didn't respond to you in the first place... you clearly feel the same way about me, so maybe you should do the same.
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Micklebot
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If you think a means of evaluating effectiveness in their respective deployment is useless that's on you, not me... Drai and McDavid are part of that deployment, and sure, they will likely have a pretty big impact, but you can still draw conclusions about whether that deployment is acceptable for those defenders or if it needs to be adjusted to get the desired results.
Your second point is getting back to interpretation of the stats, was it a sufficient sample to get useful information? Perhaps, or perhaps not (xgf stats use high event stats so the sample needed to provide stable results is pretty small), but that doesn't mean the metric provides no value, it just means more data is needed before drawing conclusions.
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Idk if you can draw that broad of a conclusion, but it's not not good coaching....
Branny took a puck in the face in practice, needs some stitches but will be gtg.
Without the lucky bounce is it a goal? Likely not.
Hockey is a fast game. These are the best players in the world. Sometimes instead of casting blame, it's simply more appropriate to tip your hat and acknowledge the other guys will score too. Not saying you're casting blame.
We won. Quite impressively too.
On to the next game
Xspyrit
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There's still people out there trying to tell me that Erik Brannstrom is a bust...
Sens of Anarchy
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Now sure Sanderson moves with puck as quick as Brannstrom.
Butchy Dakkar
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At one point Branny was QBing the PP1 and doing it very well. The commentators were musing that it should be Chabot. At this point Sandy and Branny seem to be better options.
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Gary Galley had a real rough night last night. Just some terrible takes
