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Originally Posted by dammage79
^^ I share this outlook as well. Stats provide a history Of other players development and are no better at predicting the future of an individual than reading tea leaves in my eyes.
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Of course they are. Like it or not, a lot of people's preconceptions are based on stats, however loose they may be.
For example, most people agree that tiny players have a harder shot at making the league. Now we may have no idea where that height cut-off is where things get harder, but at the end of the day, that belief is loosely based on a number. Statistics analysis is just a more rigorous scientific approach to looking at those preconceptions, and trying to let you know what that exact height is.
The same thing goes for judging "slow" players, or those born late in the year, or any other sorts of criteria that people use to judge players. A lot of them are based on numbers. Stats won't give you the whole story, but they will give you a more accurate numbers to gain insight from.