I think you mean subjective, but generally agree with your point even as someone that leans harder into analytics than traditional evaluation. Like I said, hockey analytics aren't just behind other major sports in normalization, they're also limited in scope compared to baseball and to a much less but still significant degree basketball. But that said, for a raw as hockey analytics are, hockey is so fluid and chaotic that the traditional forms of talent evaluation are just way, way too subjective to be useful without any degree of analytical backing.
- Victoro311
I actually did mean objective in regards to which analytics people think are more accurate/useful than others, i.e. some think PDO is useful, some don't. Some think WAR is useful, some don't, etc...
