Oh maaaan, yeah, those would all be really interesting. Especially that last one! I would love accurate possession stats so much. I guess it's harder with a puck to be able to automate judging when it's 'under control' where near someone than it might be with other sports equipment, but maaaan, yeah. (...my flatmates made SO MUCH fun of me the other day when Foley was all "and there's Sharp with the backdoor play" and I just yelled "fuckssake, Sharpy ALWAYS goes backdoor, jfc!" at the TV. Heh. Oops.)
Also, not really related but you reminded me of it - a thing I keep meaning to discuss/bring up not on twitter -- would you say there's any difference other than semantic between a takeaway and a giveaway? Because I keep listening to pxp guys and worrying I fundamentally misunderstand it, because as a writer I would understand a giveaway to be "dude with the puck fucked up and let the opposition waltz off with the puck" and takeaway to mean that the team who began without the puck were the ones who took the actions which resulted in them coming away with the puck. But everyone I listen to regularly seems to consistently use those two phrases in the opposite meanings - eg, the other day when Duncs accidentally redirected a shot tape-to-tape onto (I think) one of the Devils guys' sticks, who naturally then grabbed it and fucked off to the Hawks blue line with it; I would call that a giveaway but they're calling it a takeaway. Thoughts?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-10 06:08 am (UTC)Also, not really related but you reminded me of it - a thing I keep meaning to discuss/bring up not on twitter -- would you say there's any difference other than semantic between a takeaway and a giveaway? Because I keep listening to pxp guys and worrying I fundamentally misunderstand it, because as a writer I would understand a giveaway to be "dude with the puck fucked up and let the opposition waltz off with the puck" and takeaway to mean that the team who began without the puck were the ones who took the actions which resulted in them coming away with the puck. But everyone I listen to regularly seems to consistently use those two phrases in the opposite meanings - eg, the other day when Duncs accidentally redirected a shot tape-to-tape onto (I think) one of the Devils guys' sticks, who naturally then grabbed it and fucked off to the Hawks blue line with it; I would call that a giveaway but they're calling it a takeaway. Thoughts?