The Official Dallas Cowboys 2010 Off-Season Thread

[mkat]

Originally Posted by Underdog

I never said they shouldn't do their research - art and science can use the same tools, it's just a different approach.

You don't simply assign number values to a player and pick 'em - good picks come from the gut (not to mention that any type of numbers system only works in a vacuum.)

I dunno. Landry and Gil Brandt kind of made scouting a science and it worked out pretty well for them. I think there's a comfortable middle somewhere in there, but just saying "i have a gut feeling this guy's gonna be good" gets you fired.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by mkat

I dunno. Landry and Gil Brandt kind of made scouting a science and it worked out pretty well for them. I think there's a comfortable middle somewhere in there, but just saying "i have a gut feeling this guy's gonna be good" gets you fired.

Well, yeah, simply slapping some paint on a canvas doesn't make you an artist either. There's always a certain level of science behind any art form, but there really isn't an art to scientific formulas.

I'm only arguing against following a rigid mathematical template.