Agree with getbak's post.
I find the process of evaluating and interpreting data to explain current and future performance somewhat interesting. But it is amazing that some of the people who are most fanatical about this statistical analysis resort to explaining away something that doesn't match their expectation as 'luck'.
You'd think someone who loves a numerical analysis would want to find the data behind the unexpected results.
They also seem to forget the best statistic for determining whether a team is good or not already exists, and it is wins and losses. No new statistical measurement will ever replace that.
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