When offered the opportunity to write an article for FlamesNation, I told Ari that the research may take me down a rabbit hole or two before it was all over. This is one of the rabbit holes I found myself buried in.
(Here is Part 1.)
Why using results and goal differential is how a team should be evaluated
An early Google search produced an article written by Rob Found from Edmonton, and posted online at The Sports Journal, “Goal-based Metrics Better Than Shot-based Metrics at Predicting Hockey Success.” It is a statistical evaluation of 10 years of NHL data to compare goal-based versus shot-based metrics to see what methods are best at determining team success in the NHL.