Budsfan
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- Sep 17, 2006
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Corsi isn't supposed to stand on it's own.
You're supposed to look at Corsi, and assess it together with other statistics/observations.
The leafs have terrible possession/Corsi ratings. It's pretty much common sense that if you possess the puck far more often, have far more shots, and allow far less shots... you'll probably win more often.
If your Corsi rating is very low, but you're still winning, you need to look at other statistics and try to assess why.
And it's very obvious with the leafs. Bernier up till recently was putting up numbers that if kept constant over the whole season, would be the best statistics in all of world history.
If you believe that Bernier will continue to put up the best statistics ever in all world history, then you have nothing to worry about. The Corsi rankings won't matter. Not with goaltending like that.
But if you think that it's possible that Bernier's statistics may drop from the best EVER to a more reasonable level... well... thats' when the weaknesses in the team exposed by the Corsi ratings may come back to haunt us.
I personally think that our goaltending will come back down to earth... but our Corsi ratings will improve. This I think will balance out to us being a pretty strong team that started the season with a bit more points then they deserved.
I agree on your assessment of "Avanced Stats" Corsi and Fenwick and almost all statistics should be used in conjunction with other statisics and I was going to post a similar observation.
People using statistics, tend to use only portions of of stats, mostly to prove their side of an arguement and most statistics by themselves, are misleading, or of no value.
Brian Burke.....
“Statistics are like a lamp post to a drunk-useful for support, but not for illumination.â€