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Re: Offense/Defense rankings for 1043 teams
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Originally Posted by Bongle
I never claimed they should be used for scouting, though it is good to repeat that they shouldn't since people might put a bit too much trust in numbers posted by someone anonymously on the internet. So here it is again: USE FOR SCOUTING AT YOUR OWN RISK.
As for numbers reflecting alliances as a whole, if that was truly an enormous flaw, then FIRST should probably re-work how regionals are run. This is nothing more than an aggregation of all the average scores, as if the entire planet was at a single regional together.
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Statistics can be manipulated, massaged, and otherwise molded to say what ever you want them to say...
I'm didn't mean to say they SHOULD be used for scouting. But if you see a team high up in the list that is in your division, they might be worth watching to see if was luck or skill that got them there. If you could make decisions based on numbers alone, we wouldn't need scouting... just a set of match results...
Remember: "There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics." ~Benjamin Disraeli
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06-04-2006, 13:38
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