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Originally Posted by R0taryRocket
Near the end, the paper discusses some of the qualitative factors that go against this model based purely on quantitative analysis. The author goes as far as calling their model shortsighted, "only caring about maximizing the points" per game.
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Yes. Also, in there, they talk about how pride (player's, owners') and fan's disappointment with a 5:1 loss over 2:1 loss are factors that the mathematical model simply cannot account for.