A few years ago 'Advanced Stats' were derided on this board, but now are widely used - Game Takes being full of them for example. Is it possible the pendulum has swung too far the other way and we are overlooking intangibles - 'heart', 'resiliency', 'emotion', 'killer instinct', 'talent', etc. - as originally argued? This team may have good underlying numbers but inspires no confidence.
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