well... there is probably already a few teams with econometricians on board. based on my prior experience with that ilk - I'm sure their progress got held up by

well... there is probably already a few teams with econometricians on board. based on my prior experience with that ilk - I'm sure their progress got held up by the insistence that all returns (err, ratings) follow a guassian distribution. Also, all of that training in math and stats is pretty useless if you just use it to "prove" something you already "know" :)