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Dave @ Cornell suggests using a goals-allowed-per-minute stat instead
of a goals-allowed-per-attempt for power play/short-handed stats. I, too,
thought this new stat would give "truer" rankings of teams' PP/SH teams
until I saw the stats from the NHL.
From the 80 game NHL 90-1 season (stats from The Hockey News):
Rank PPG/Attempt PPG/Minute
1 Calg Calg
2 NYRang NYRang
3 Pitt Chi
4 Chi Pitt
5 Bos Bos
... (too lazy to type them all in) ...
17 Edmon Edmon
18 Van Van
19 Det Det
20 NYIsle NYIsle
21 Que Que
Basically, teams come out the same in both lists. Granted, I haven't
done a statistical test to see if the two rankings are significantly
different, but my eyeball tells me there is not enough to worry about.
The two biggest differences were LA (#6, #10) and Win (#11, #7), btw.
The short-handed tables looked alike, too.
And the first one is SO MUCH easier to compute, so why bother?
Keith
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