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Originally Posted by dude45
oh and LC says its perfectly fine for coaches to give players bad info
You can frame it that way, but all the people in that conversation agree that as you continue to increase the amount of information the top players have, the tougher you make the games, and the more likely you are to drive away the types of players who make the game worth playing.
Framing it as "truth" instead of as "information" does not matter (except for winning hearts and minds, I suppose).
So if
no one has access to analysis based on massive databases of specific opponents, or simulations, or HUDs, the average player will win more often, but that means (the theory goes) they will keep playing year after year, losing year after year. But occasionally having memorable winning sessions. And if those winning sessions become fewer and fewer and smaller and smaller, they will just stop showing up. Or so goes the common wisdom.
All three of those guys agree about all that. But one of them also runs a business selling data analysis, and so he tends to cast it as "truth" (using his the tools that he personally sells) versus chaos/lying/playing by feel (not using his product).