Yes, we can certainly spend plenty of time and effort on examining the stats...if we choose to...and we can definitely begin to isolate important information which will allow us to set better tactics and/or know our HGL opponents better...however, we should also keep in mind that we are all (or most of us) still training and what we know about teams now will likely change in the future...maybe...
I suppose the quoted text above only was your response, even though it seemed in an above post of yours to blend to be part of my message.
Yes - well, if these HGL team stats can be kept available in a continuous basis, then in that case nobody needs to choose plenty of time to extract this information from match data, but they can just simply utilize it by checking out 3 different team stats-posts.
Yes, change is always inevitable. Just like in real life. But it doesn't prevent us from getting "a feel" of team in a real world, even if we acknowledge team will not probably be the same 10 seasons down the road. Same goes to HGL teams. That, on the other hand, doesn't lessen the value of statistics.
But that's another beauty of statistics - it gives you concrete means to compare something that's the reality today, and what has been the reality in the past (and then you can easily see the change/development). So in that sense it also can give us information on which direction which coach has decided to take their team (through training and/or trades) in a stretch of several seasons...
Last edited by Wagner at 2/20/2026 7:28:42 AM