Another stat story.
When my son was a soph in HS a conference team went on to win State, their pitcher was All-State with great stats, my snot nosed soph son was conference 2nd team. Another conference team that could not score a run and was even worse in the Field had a pitcher who was 0-7 but a good era who was conference Honorable Mention. The All-State pitcher went on to have a semi-successful tech school career and now sells shoes, the 0-7 guy was drafted in the 10th round out of HS and I think is still getting paid.
Moral, the State coaches and the media did nothing but look at stats, the pros who know the game looked at projection. At that point I decided that numbers can always be construed to make someone look good, but beauty has to be experienced.