at least when it comes to sports. She too is a wonderful fan of baseball and the Dodgers. She says analytics is simply based of the law of probabilities. But not certainties. The ability to distinguish is when the manager becomes important. The data may show one thing but there may be many "organic" things going on right her-right now-that threatens the "probabilities". In this evenings digital Times a headline reads "Tyler Andersen says he could have pitched another 5 innings". Earlier in the same paper today there was a few lines that showed the Dodgers have pre game meetings where certain things are set (I.e. how many pitches a pitcher will throw before you remove him. Again "probability". But we are talking human beings-some of whom get good night sleeps one day and not on another. Some may have gastrointestinal issues one day and not other days. It should always be left to a manager-as long as he has the capacity to do his best in determining if he should depart from what the numbers say.
Here's a good article from jack Harris a writer for the Times. In it I see the implication the Dodgers will always do well during the season and fold during the playoffs. Reading between the lines is the Dodger players are soft-when the pressure is on. Watching the games on TV I have to say the Padre players just "looked tougher" than the Dodger players. You know those who you would not want to get in a fight with. The possible except of Muncy and Joey Gallo and of course -whatever happened to Kirk Gibson.
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