Awesome show, Kevin! One thing I have trouble wrapping my head around is stats that are consequential but not predictive. I think putting in golf is a good example: past putting does a poor job of predicting future putting but is a major contributor to scoring low. As an analyst, how do you think about these kinds of things? It seems like the guys on the podcast were lamenting the "team/player got lucky" explanation as a conversation stopper, but I think sometimes it really is true!
Awesome show, Kevin! One thing I have trouble wrapping my head around is stats that are consequential but not predictive. I think putting in golf is a good example: past putting does a poor job of predicting future putting but is a major contributor to scoring low. As an analyst, how do you think about these kinds of things? It seems like the guys on the podcast were lamenting the "team/player got lucky" explanation as a conversation stopper, but I think sometimes it really is true!