[choltz]

It sounds like quite a few teams rely on what I would call qualitative scouting rather than quantitative data. IMO qualitative will lose every time to quantitative because qualitative is subjective at best and tends to reflect the scouters' beliefs of a team based on: past years, team size, rookie status, robot look etc.

Similar to the plot of moneyball, if your numbers accurately measure what you want to know, say percentage high goal accuracy, then they will be much more accurate at finding trends in the 60+ teams you have to simultaneously watch playing for two days straight. At least compared to the opinions of a small group of experienced team members.