Random Forest
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- May 12, 2010
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If you are consistently bad at something (among the league's poorest) you need to take a good hard look at why from an "analytics" perspective and not just chalk it up to luck....
Yeah they shouldn't make it this big science project at the exclusion of more important fundamentals but they should not consider it an afterthought either. I think Berube is taking the right approach thus far...let's see if it yields any results. I happen to think we lack enough skill to make a difference from a personnel perspective but there is always room for improvement on everybody's part.
Yeah, but someone has to be at the bottom of the list. Even if you, I, and 28 others form a coin flipping league, someone is going to end up with a terrible record of heads to tails.
Now, equating shootouts to coin flips is disingenuous, and I agree with that, but it shouldn't be quite surprising that the Flyers are near the bottom when we've had the poorest goaltending in the league since the beginning of the shootout.
It's not for lack of practice or poor shooters, imo. With Mason, I expect the Flyers shootout success to regress to the mean over the long term.
EDIT: That being said, like Beef said, there's no downside, so why the hell not practice it more. Shootouts in practice are fun for players anyways.