Clrnc I’m one of those people. 🙂
So I spend a lot of time reading proper data people like Knutson and others. Folks who have explanatory data, not random numbers. Very often, you can look at a team and see that it’s actually fine and needs very small tweaks. A good example is Arsenal first half of last season season when many people were unhappy but advanced metrics showed we were the best team across a lot of dimensions. We were just not putting in final balls. We were controlling the game as well as anybody in Europe, but our lack of goals was causing significantly more panic than the advanced metrics suggested.
What we shouldn’t do is just threw around numbers for the hell of it. But definitely looking at control numbers over several weeks helps understand your team’s potential. And ease the immediate stress of a loss.
