Ridiculously specific NHL records

[Dakkster]

I randomly came to Marty Brodeur's website and it has a page with all of his NHL records. Most of them are just fine, but then I saw this:

"Most consecutive opening night starts with one team (17)"

How ridiculously specific is that? Why not just go "most wins on a tuesday when it's raining" or something like that? Talk about arbitrary...

So yeah, he has 23 records or whatnot, but how many of them are just silly in terms of how specific they are? How many of Gretzky's records are that specific?

[tequilamonster]

I randomly came to Marty Brodeur's website and it has a page with all of his NHL records. Most of them are just fine, but then I saw this:

"Most consecutive opening night starts with one team (17)"

How ridiculously specific is that? Why not just go "most wins on a tuesday when it's raining" or something like that? Talk about arbitrary...

So yeah, he has 23 records or whatnot, but how many of them are just silly in terms of how specific they are? How many of Gretzky's records are that specific?

i once farted 12 times in a row within 15 seconds.......

thats how i value marty brodeurs lame ass stats on his lame ass website

lame

patrick roy forever. best goalie that ever lived. shame on marty for shagging his wifes sister. his wife was better looking

[Man_not_Puck]

I think you might have pissed off somebody....

(give you a hint - he started the thread)

[bondon]

Yeah I'm not a fan of that degree of 'stat-wanking' either...it happens A TON in baseball (at least on the Jays broadcasts...god every time Pat Tabler pulls a random stat like that out of his butt I wanna scream!)

[austeane]

I once flipped a coin heads 12 times in a row...

[Atomic Wedgy]

A coin flip on heads 12 times in a row! Holy shit man. No joke, that is crazy odds.

[kevinsrangers]

mario scoring five diferent goals in a game.....an emty netter after scoring 4 is not gonna come to often. not sure if that was against marty, but it was the devils.

[Carcillo]

mario scoring five diferent goals in a game.....an emty netter after scoring 4 is not gonna come to often. not sure if that was against marty, but it was the devils.

That happened in the New Year's Eve 1988 so before Marty's time.

[Rylant]

In baseball, on May 29, 1996, the NY Mets and SF Giants played each other with starting pitchers William Van Landingham vs Jason Isringhausen setting the record for the longest combined names of two starting pitchers!

Rylant

[Dakkster]

How many people actually get paid for checking all these records?

[Loch]

A coin flip on heads 12 times in a row! Holy shit man. No joke, that is crazy odds.

I wonder what were the odds of the 13th flip coming up heads?

We do see an awful lot of meaningless stats in sports broadcasts.

I always like the stats like "Pittsburgh is 23-2-1 all time against San Jose"... Apparently this is relevant to the outcome of the next game even though 90% of those games happened before any of the players in the current game joined the NHL. ~Sigh~

I also enjoy the "goalie x is 2-0-1 with a 0.66 GAA in the second half of back to back games in which he faces more than 30 shots after losing the previous game while facing less than 25 shots" stats.

But yeah, Marty's stat is impressively meaningless. It is the byproduct of his good play, but not in and of itself an actual measure of good play.

[Garbage Goal]

I wonder what were the odds of the 13th flip coming up heads?

Not sure if that is sarcasm, but I'll try and sound smart anyhow. 50/50

[Atomic Wedgy]

Garbage Goal is 100% correct. The next flip is 50-50. Every flip is 50-50. But if asked before the first flip, the chances to 12 in a row on heads is 4096/1. The next flip is double that at 8192/1.

Some of the records are indeed quite stupid and pretty meaningless. I mean you dont go out and try to break the record for most 1st period defensive faceoffs won in a row by an away team.

[Rylant]

Garbage Goal is 100% correct. The next flip is 50-50. Every flip is 50-50. But if asked before the first flip, the chances to 12 in a row on heads is 4096/1. The next flip is double that at 8192/1.

Some of the records are indeed quite stupid and pretty meaningless. I mean you dont go out and try to break the record for most 1st period defensive faceoffs won in a row by an away team.

This is a true story. When I was 14 or 15, I used to play Dungeons & Dragons a lot with a few friends of mine who I am still friends with (I know... I am a nerd). There were times when you would have to roll a 20 sided die to generate a random number between 1 and 20 and that number would determine the results of gameplay. It was always desirable to have a high number generated. One of my friends who I consider a very intelligent person, went through this phase where, when asked to roll a 20 sided die, he would say "OK, give me a minute... this doesn't count." and he would roll that 20 sided die a bunch of times. He would wait until he rolled 3 very low numbers in a row and then would say "OK, my next die roll is the number I will use." and he would roll again, using that number. His theory was, that the law of averages states that if you roll a 20 sided dice 4 times, odds are it will roll a high number at least once. He honestly thought he was increasing his chances of rolling a high die roll when it mattered by doing this. I asked him if he thought that the previous rolls somehow influenced the dice to roll better this time? He would always say "you can't argue with the math." I kept telling him that his math was off, and he never believed me, no matter how much we laughed at him :-)

Rylant

[ericdaoust]

I hate when I'm watching a game and they combine two stats to just create a record out of thin air. At one point it was "First to score 50 goals and get 200 PIM" and now it's "First to score 55 goals and 165 PIM" or "First to score 40 goals and 210 PIM." They just tweak it to their convenience. Someone needs to give the stat trackers more meaningful work!