[Greeksquared]

Sports is the only area of society where such mistakes are so open to the public and so blindly passed over. I mean look at how quants have completely take over wall street and that is a "game" where optimal strategy is nearly impossible to figure out.

Football, basketball, and most especially baseball can be analyzed very precisely using relatively simple applications to determine the right play to maximize winning percentage which is all that matters. There isn't nearly as much money in these sports but just imagine if one of these quant hedge funds took over a baseball franchise. This team would break all sorts of records within 5 years and almost surely make the playoffs every year. This Cardinal loss probably cost the team at least 100k, possibly much much more if they fall 1 game short of a playoff game. I guess I'll stop now as I could go on forever but it just strikes me as an impossibility of how sub-optimal decision making is in all sports across the board.