It really depends on what you mean by "outperform". If your goal is to catch the baseball, a simple gaze heuristic works well. If you want to understand how ang

It really depends on what you mean by "outperform". If your goal is to catch the baseball, a simple gaze heuristic works well. If you want to understand how angle of impact, air resistance, rotation etc effect where the ball will land, of course you need a "complex" model that includes these factors. The most complete model, that provides our best explanation of the system, isn't always the model that yields the best predictions.