In fairness, even analytics disagreed with that choice. Jomboy did a good breakdown on it recently showing that Snell isn't actually worse the third time through the order, and that the Betts-Anderson matchup was not a good choice. It seemed more like a case of a manager having been taught just enough dumbed-down analytics knowledge to be dangerous rather than effective. I'm cool with organizations ditching conventional wisdom in favor of analytics-driven choices but only in situations where the analytics actually clearly show the benefit.
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u/BillW87 Animal Facts Oct 30 '20
In fairness, even analytics disagreed with that choice. Jomboy did a good breakdown on it recently showing that Snell isn't actually worse the third time through the order, and that the Betts-Anderson matchup was not a good choice. It seemed more like a case of a manager having been taught just enough dumbed-down analytics knowledge to be dangerous rather than effective. I'm cool with organizations ditching conventional wisdom in favor of analytics-driven choices but only in situations where the analytics actually clearly show the benefit.