Page four, probably pretty late to weigh in with any gravity, but this would be a
GODSEND for the League.
We currently have someone devoted exclusively to developing this system's applications for the League. It's that important. It would make all of the League staffs' jobs a lot easier by vastly simplifying the record-keeping process.
More importantly though is its applications toward match outcome prediction. Every match needs to be carefully tuned to make it a balanced match and not a one-sided blow-out victory. You'd think that wouldn't be the case that law of averages would keep things within the realm of fairness but looking back over the preseason we can say that is emphatically not the case. But if we could look at these tracked stats per team and make adjustments in who we match up with who, we would have a much simplier time ensuring the matches are competitive.
So that'd be even less work and we could focus our energies on improving the league elsewhere. It would be fantastic for the League to be able to access this body of data and I whole-heartedly support it and I would encourage any League fans to do the same. This would let us improve the League SO mcuh.
Whatever measures admins feel necessary like private or SM-only stat tracking would be fine, although on that issue I'd say that TGers are TGers and I for one have the faith in them that they won't melt into score-crazed stat-fiends if we bring a stat system in. Especially one designed around
TG principles. That temptation has been out there elsewhere and they're choosen to come here. It's an over-blown fear IMHO, and one easily corrected by pulling the plug if that fear becomes reality.