year of added data makes its statistical comparisons between recruits, teams, opposition approach insurance-like estimations.

A player's skills, improvement, effort, teamwork, adaptation, and health along with those of fellow players, opposing teams, and opposing players are data worth literally billions of dollars. Entire sports including betting, training, and recruiting are not only better with it but hugely costly without it.

There is no way that that data has not already been collected, is not being collected, it's usage not being refined, and isn't being held as tightly to the vest as possible. Even its use can be statistically revealed and measured.