Inflation is a fact, and it is impacting everything from the cost of travel to the Thanksgiving dinner itself. The people impacted the most are those who were already barely making it inside their budget. Still, it is Thanksgiving, and even in a year with high prices there is still much for which to be thankful.
When analytics first came to sports it improved outcomes, because so much of what had happened before then had more to do with tradition than with logic and reason. Knowledge is a powerful thing, and the proper analysis of data can build knowledge. Knowledge, however, is not the same as wisdom. Wisdom comes from the combination of knowledge and experience. Let me give some examples of where analytics gets it wrong.