the only important quesiton here is whether it is worth the effort of mining an answer.
That is 100% personal in nature, even if it clearly and drastically improves the probability of winning over time.
any argument about it not being realistic or this or that is just opinion masquarading as falacious logical reasoning. they just don't like it for some reason.... not liking it is perfectly okay, but using falacious reasoning to rain on someone else's parade is just silly and borderline petty-like/bitter-like emotion.
mlb teams defintiely do these things... it's naive to think they don't. and when one does somethign that works well, others follow suit shotly (even the ******ed tigers have an analytics department now... 20 years late... really 100+ years late for any half-smart person, lol.)
there's no logical reasoning against it... just feelings and emotions of those that perceive it in some negative way. right and wrong? LoL a vidoe game and the MLB care not for "right and wrong." That's what the rules are for!
this is competition and you are allowed to all that is possible within the rules of the game... limiting that is a personal decision, not logic, and that choice will result in less wins over time, empirically. whether or not that is consequential is also part of the decisiosn to do it or not.
if my competition wants mystique over knowledge, i am okay with that too... nothing wrong with people doing things in a worse way when i am competing agsainst them... confidence booster, really
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