I spent a decade in the press box watching the game change from gut-feeling...

https://andresgreatinsight.image-perth.org/the-eyeball-test-gets-an-upgrade-how-computer-vision-is-rewriting-scouting

I spent a decade in the press box watching the game change from gut-feeling scouting to cold, hard math. In 2000, only 23% of teams used full-scale data, but today that number is 97%