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the New Cunning Linguist
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 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: Empirical evidence that the best is still in the West... |
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http://www.hockeyanalysis.com/?p=671
Ottawa below Phoenix, Columbus and Vancouver? I think face validity just went out the window.
Okay, so perhaps it's not definitive evidence... 
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saskhab
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That's what happens when you just apply a single ratio and call it a "power ranking".
Yes, the West is better than the East. For God's sake, look at Toronto... they're only 5 points out of a playoff spot and they're 20-30! But plop Phoenix in the East and they'll have a completely different record, they won't have one based on that ratio at all.
And anything that eliminates shootouts just isn't based in reality anymore.
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E.L.3000
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No wonder that hockeyanalysis.com article is bunk, it was done by the first-ever analyst-therapist.
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DH
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Location: Alberta
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| saskhab wrote: |
That's what happens when you just apply a single ratio and call it a "power ranking".
Yes, the West is better than the East. For God's sake, look at Toronto... they're only 5 points out of a playoff spot and they're 20-30! But plop Phoenix in the East and they'll have a completely different record, they won't have one based on that ratio at all.
And anything that eliminates shootouts just isn't based in reality anymore. |
Exactly. By using that 'difficulty of schedule' variable, how can you not get a result that keeps the west higher? This is shoddier modelling than the hockey stick shaped predicted temperature graphs that were thoroughly discredited.
And I agree on the shootout treatment as well. Unless the objective is to model something for the playoffs, you have to consider shootouts. |
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