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Originally Posted by Locke
Story Time:
I coached soccer for several years, the club I coached for in Calgary had a affiliation with a Premier League club in England and sent us their reserve team coach for a week to teach us coaches how to coach.
I learned a lot. I also spent 2 days in statistical information sessions.
I've taken several statistics classes during the course of my University education and, hell, I'm a sports fan so who doesnt love statistics? But this was ridiculous.
So, every time I see statements like this I chuckle a little bit, the 'answer' isnt 'Moneyball' or 'Trouble With the Curve,' its being able to know which statistics are relevant statistics and combine that with a knowledge of what you're applying those statistics to.
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More important than accumulating vast amount of analytic data is deciphering what data points are relevant and which aren't. Totally agree.
It's facile to say Burke dismisses analytics of comprehensive statistically based analysis.
For all of the hand-wringing about Burke in this thread about stats and Lombardi's presentation, no one else in that group felt Yandle or Ryan were worth taking, even in a reserve role. Maybe it says something when the clubs having representation at advanced analytics conferences come to the same conclusion as someone who did not necessarily utilize them to come to the same conclusion.