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Re: General post-SCF thread

From: (Anonymous)
Okay but the Penguins kicked that ~curse's~ butt https://twitter.com/ManGamesLostNHL/status/742333383334891520

Take that, curse!

Re: General post-SCF thread

From: (Anonymous)
Shouldn't that be a year by year measure anyway? Clumping all the years together seems deceptive and not like it would tell you much.

Re: General post-SCF thread

From: (Anonymous)
It tells you the trend. This is a generally healthy/unhealthy team, based on the usual amount of man games lost. Which smooths out really good and bad years' worth of data.

Re: General post-SCF thread

From: (Anonymous)
But how can unrelated injuries be a trend? If a team is injured a lot one year, they are going to have fewer wins that year, sure. But if at team is injured a lot five years ago, how does that say anything about their chances of winning games now?

The really good years and the really bad shouldn't be smoothed out; those should be considered the significant times for identifying a pattern.

Re: General post-SCF thread

From: (Anonymous)
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I think both would be informative, in different ways. Sometimes injuries are totally unrelated from each other, but sometimes they can share related causes (a team systematically overtraining or not following good recovery practices, a player being injury prone). So I think seeing the cumulative data does have value, especially since the chart only records how many games are missed due to injury, but we all know that players also spend plenty of time playing injured, and those injuries affect their performance, too. So I do care to know which teams "tend" to be injured. But I'd also like to see that data with the years separated out and how it corresponds to cup performance by year.