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[quote author=Boston Card link=topic=15912.msg175847#msg175847 date=1476580762]
It's a fair point, but the people who made the decision have a lot more data points than we do. 

Having more data points is not necessarily an advantage if the holders of the data points do not have proper algorithms or the nous to understand what those data points mean.  My working life was successful because as an outsider I could identify the incredibly stupid misunderstandings of reality by the powers that be.  Just because Stanford Football is just football doesn't mean that the powers that be there who know more about football than we do are infallible.

Remember NASA and the Challenger disaster?  I do.
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I would buy that possibility if there was a divergence between what we saw on the field and the decisions by the coaches.  But the hypothesis that Chryst is better than Burns rests on the dual assumptions that the coaches are myopic on the additional data they have AND that what we are seeing on the field is not representative of what Chryst can do.

BC

[BostonCard]

[quote author=Boston Card link=topic=15912.msg175847#msg175847 date=1476580762]
It's a fair point, but the people who made the decision have a lot more data points than we do. 

Having more data points is not necessarily an advantage if the holders of the data points do not have proper algorithms or the nous to understand what those data points mean.  My working life was successful because as an outsider I could identify the incredibly stupid misunderstandings of reality by the powers that be.  Just because Stanford Football is just football doesn't mean that the powers that be there who know more about football than we do are infallible.

Remember NASA and the Challenger disaster?  I do.
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I would buy that possibility if there was a divergence between what we saw on the field and the decisions by the coaches.  But the hypothesis that Chryst is better than Burns rests on the dual assumptions that the coaches are myopic on the additional data they have AND that what we are seeing on the field is not representative of what Chryst can do.

BC