Monday, March 31, 2014
Rejecting information
Dave Poulin is an exec with the Maple Leafs. He's not a fan of analytics.
One of the things that we do with information is to try to understand the context. Whereas someone who just looks at numbers might not think about some of these contexts, a subject matter expert, like a hockey fan or hockey exec, would think about things like score differential, even strength v man advantage, and so on.
This is what we are really about, trying to figure out the biases in the data, and account for it. Try to understand how much random variation we are dealing with, and try to establish the signal.
The only thing to reject is those analysts who perform mathematical gyrations to get to an end-point that is undeserved.
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