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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1447370, member: 628"] Nothing happens in a vacuum. Not sports, business, politics, science, etc. All of those variables can be accounted for, assuming there's enough sample. Data helps. But no one, even a complete data geek like myself, would suggest that decisions should be made by blind adherence to "stats". That's a false dichotomy, "experience" vs. data, and one that drives me nuts. You use data to make better decisions, you use the blend of science *and* art. In other words, you don't dismantle the scouting department in a baseball team, you use analytics to help them do their job better. Hell, you're a Yankees fan, you should know that they were using analytics to emphasize plate patience in the mid-90s -- they used data to find the Paul O'Neill's and Scott Brosius's. [/QUOTE]