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Re: OPR after Week Seven Events

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Originally Posted by Bongle View Post
Essentially, the rising tide of more-available analytical tools has lifted everyone's scouting boats: everyone is scouting better because of it, but a given team is probably relatively in the same position vis a vis its competitors as it was before the advent of easy-to-use OPR data. So you need to use it, but to assume that it is the ticket to better-than-your-opposition picking may be a bad assumption.
This. No matter how much we improve our automated analyses, humans still have to not only be in the loop, but control it. It might be interesting to find out if building your pick list strictly on OPR is better than just picking the highest-ranked available robot. I'm pretty sure it is, but without some actual, numerical, analysis I won't say that I believe it.

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
Somewhere, deep in the bowels of 1114's shop, there exists a room full of nothing but students training to be Karthik's hand doubles. They practice thumbs up and thumbs down for hours a day for many years until they are needed in an occasion such as this.
Preposterous! This is 1114; they're not wasting time practicing with humans to stand in for Karthik's thumbs. They're building something.
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