MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Stated this way, sure. I don't think there's a whole heap of difference based on 2-4% faceoff wins. It amounts to around 30-60 possession starts. Of course, if one of those is in game 7 of the SCF on a defensive zone faceoff, it might be pretty important.
Of course, but you know better than most that context is extremely important when you're looking into small samples. When you're looking at total value, the more data the better and individual points become less and less important. In a short sample like a playoff series, an individual point of data can be the difference between winning and losing. You don't make player decisions based on that one data point though, but on the much broader sampling. If a 20% faceoff taking winger, wins a OZone faceoff in triple overtime of game 7 and that possession directly leads to the winning goal, it was still a bad decision to utilize that player if you had better options on the ice at the time.
Do you have a link to this article? From what I can see, you're talking about data from 19 playoff games from 1 player looking at 1 outcome. That's nothing like what I suggested.
I'll see if I can find it. The guy was talking about Bergeron specifically at the end of the Bruins last cup finals appearance so it was specific to what he had done, but just applying the faceoff analysis to Bergeron's performance