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Originally Posted by Curve Ball Dave
And as I have stated, baseball players at times do things that seem illogical to a statistician but make perfect sense in the context of helping the team win.
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I don't think that situation exists. I don't even know what's "illogical to a statistician" mean.
Maybe you are talking about "certain people who quotes certain stats" instead of "statistician".
Typical baseball stats are records of observations. Trajectory data of the ball are records of observations. Data IS the output of observartions, so there is no such a thing of "data being contrary to your observation", because data and observation are linked. I think you got a lot of terms mixed up and confuses.
Statistics is just a tool to help combine vast amount of info and find patterns in it.