This really reminds me of the book Moneyball. What I found most interesting about that book and this sort of stats based management phenomenon is that it flies

This really reminds me of the book Moneyball. What I found most interesting about that book and this sort of stats based management phenomenon is that it flies in the face of human nature and thus, people who are considered experts tend to reject such ideas. What often happens is that people reject the ideas until they start winning or showing an obvious competitive advantage, then they embrace the ideas and they become the new standard way of doing things and people will parrot that as the one true way to do things as if it were always so. I guess that is what progress looks like.