Originally Posted by
hutennis
I would have to respectfully disagree.
There is a huge difference between approaches and methodologies of true scientists and those of sport results “predictors”.
In fact, “predictors” move in the exact opposite direction of how science operates.
Scientific theories are designed to incorporate more and more data, absolutely.
But scientists prefer fewer theories which describe more phenomena rather than many theories which each describe very little.
One of the greatest achievements of a human civilization is a simple and very short mathematical formula (E=MC˛) which describes a mind boggling range of physical phenomena.
Compare it to mind boggling number of theories all going (still unsuccessfully, I might add) after the same thing – trying to predict an outcome of a simple ball game