Importance of Corsi

[EuroCaps Participant]

In the future, when we’ll have possession tracked to the exact second for teams and players, I wonder if Corsi/Fenwick will become more and more irrelevant?

[Manny Member]

I don’t actually think true possession time is advantageous to Corsi, and Garret Hohl who has access to both has supported that notion. I think it’s faulty to call Corsi a proxy for possession when it is equivalently a proxy for scoring chances.

[Chris Participant]

I never understood why Corsi/Fenwick are Called possession stats. Wouldn’t shot metric be a more accurate category?

[khe137 Participant]

throwback to Carlyle saying the Leafs had good possession when you looked at time instead of shots, and people checking and finding that, nope! time was in line with corsi

[Emmanuel Perry Keymaster]

Truthfully, I’m not a fan of the term “possession” in relation to shot metrics. I think Corsi is a reasonably good proxy for true offensive zone possession time, but I’ve yet to see evidence the latter is preferable. People forget that Fenwick was also shown to follow scoring chances quite closely. To me, that’s a much more significant takeaway.

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