It seems that the opposing team has about the same information on Youichi that Riko and Yogi had…and likely from the same source. Bad Snuka. Selling info to journalists is bad, but selling it to the opposing team is openly treacherous.

The best argument you could make in Snuka defense…not that anybody is likely to have much of an inclination toward trying to defend him, but, you know, in principle…would be that the information really isn’t all that useful, as Tanuki correctly observes. He did manage to correctly decipher his coach’s very inventive signalling, which is a feat of its own…but what, precisely, have Youichi’s relationship status and his past criminal (or likely just misdemeanorial) record have to do with his batting style and ability?

Tanuki is too smart to fall for the “best data” fallacy – the idea that you have to base your decisions on the best data available, no matter how objectively bad that data might be. If you have no useful intelligence, proceed as you would if you had no intelligence available…that’s still better than making junk decisions based on junk data, just because that was all you had.

More on Monday.