Trials Stats. (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, August 13, 2015, 02:11 (3488 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY
edited by Cody Miller, Thursday, August 13, 2015, 02:17

Jokes aside, very good point. Numbers can't always paint the entire picture.

It can give you a good picture if you look just at wins. The idea behind moneyball was essentially "if this player is on the team, how much more would the team win?" You could then figure out, for example, if two players clashed, So maybe Jim helps his team win more, except when he's playing with Bob. Compile it all down, and you can figure out who you'd want to hire to make a team to win the most games.

You might have two great players, who just don't work well together because they are both aggressive and can't support each other when one dies. Conversely, you could have a player who doesn't look amazing on his own, but pairs well with a player mentioned in the previous sentence.

That's what the algorithm finds out. I wish I knew more about the actual math.