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Originally Posted by StyxNCa
Basically, and no offense is meant to anyone here, I can tell you what to expect from the basic stats, I don't need everything broken down to the nth degree. All the sabermetric stats are derived from formulas that use the basic stats, therefore all the info you need is right there in the basic stats.
My guess is people who need all these newfangled stats in the real world, for some reason, are either unable to figure things out by what they see from players or they just don't believe what their eyes are showing them. I have never looked at any sabermetric stat in my life and yet I know as much about players and their value as anyone who comes to their conclusion of a player by poring over those sabermetrics. I wonder how that's possible.
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Basically, and no offense is meant to you here, I don't get the impression you even understand what sabermetric stats are. They are not, for example, all based on the 'basic stats'. So I don't think you're in a position to compare how well a sabermetrician evaluates players with how well you do.
And I think most baseball analysts agree (and have for a long time) that an intelligent synthesis of statistical information and scouting information provides a much better portrait of a player than does statistical information (or scouting information) alone. The idea that there's some sort of stats vs scouting divide is mostly a myth.