The kingfisher analogy is perfect. Well, almost perfect; give these guys another few million years of evolution, and their internal statistical analysis might reach the same level as the ProspectBot's, but they're not there yet. If they were, their lists would be clearly superior.
Wolf, I personally prefer Goldstein's lists. Sickels relies too much on stats (by which I mean that 90% of what he does is stuff that I can do better) and intuition (which might have meaning if he's seen the player in action, but when he says he has a good intuitive feeling about some random high school draftee, I don't see any reason to care). And the BA lists go too far in the direction of hyping 17-year-olds. Goldstein's lists, for the most part, are a happy medium.
Of course, there's another interesting little project here: figure out whose lists correlate the best with the ProspectBot's (I assume it will be Sickels, but you never know) and by how much.
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