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Originally Posted by New Era
If there was any value to them teams would be firing their scouting staffs and hiring rooms full of stat nerds.
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That's line of thinking makes about as much sense as some Luddite in the '80s saying if there was any benefit in using video in coaching that teams would be firing their regular coaches en masse and hiring audiovisual nerds (with the logical implication of course being that since coaches weren't being replaced by nerds, that video had no utility in coaching sports). Just a terrible and idiotic argument in both cases.
You realize it's quite possible for different tools to complement one another, right? Teams can combine traditional scouting methods with strong statistical models in order to achieve even better results, which is what pretty much any decently run organization is already doing.