I have the Athletic and I find myself ignoring Kent's stuff. Its just too analytics heavy, and to be honest, I don't find it especially insightful.
1) Too much emphasis on advanced statistics makes for poor story telling. I don't have an issue with advance stats, I just don't think he uses them properly. Advance stats should be weaved into the story to provide evidence. His articles feel like data dump of statistics...its not very good storytelling. The statistics are basically the story with his writing.
2) Its not clear that the stats he cites are strong enough to stand on their own. And as someone with a background in statistics, I don't find the pure stats articles very compelling either. The advanced stats used in most articles are subject to a lot of false positive and have a wide standard of error. I can imagine how advanced stats are useful within an organization, but I dont think they're using Corsi or WOWY. I think more often than not, stats have to be more micro-detailed to eliminate the large degree of error that plagues high level advanced stats.
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