OrangeGravy
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How are analytics more than just passively relevant to football? I genuinely want someone to convince me. 17 game seasons with a single elimination tournament? 11 men trying to execute a play while 11 others physically fight them to keep them from executing that play. Physical and talent mismatches all over the place and never in the same place from play to play or game to game. How can you possibly count on probabilities when there are that many uncontrollable variables and with such a small sample? I admit I haven't taken a deep dive into it, but just superficially, I can't see it being that relevant outside of lumping multiple seasons together. I'm sure it helps assist in some areas, but can you really run a franchise on it and expect to be successful?
Im a former college baseball player and it makes perfect sense in baseball even if it has ruined the fan experience. You have 1 single exchange of batter and pitcher that the entire game pivots off of with 162 games played. It's easy to boil down the numbers to what should happen when this specific batter faces this specific pitcher. You can even boil it down a specific pitch from said pitcher to said batter. It works in from just about any angle you want to use it for baseball.
Again this isn't meant to bash analytics. I'm genuinely curious what you stats guys think about it. Do people think it should dominate decision making or should it be 1 of many things to take into account?
Im a former college baseball player and it makes perfect sense in baseball even if it has ruined the fan experience. You have 1 single exchange of batter and pitcher that the entire game pivots off of with 162 games played. It's easy to boil down the numbers to what should happen when this specific batter faces this specific pitcher. You can even boil it down a specific pitch from said pitcher to said batter. It works in from just about any angle you want to use it for baseball.
Again this isn't meant to bash analytics. I'm genuinely curious what you stats guys think about it. Do people think it should dominate decision making or should it be 1 of many things to take into account?