Here I will challenge Chuck, on behalf of Curmudgeon, lets say. As an academic scientist, I saw, perhaps six scientists destroy their careers based on gut instinct. George Bush sent us to war in Iraq, based on gut instinct. Millions of people don't and do support global warming based on gut instinct. Chuck's notion that baskets give fluky outcomes is based on... gut instinct. Now I like and respect Chuck. But heck, you can't even tell what percentage of putts are impacted by fluke even if you know it happens. Yes, I know, it seems logical to Chuck, based on his experience. He's wrong. He can argue till the planet dies, but as I wrote above, I know plenty who've looked at things and based on very logical arguments made in a vacuum, were dead wrong.
Running with the theme that there are fluky outcomes, they have no import [sic?]. Players don't whine because of fluky outcomes, they whine because they didn't get what they wanted. If you made the perfect God anointed basket, that every shot that should go in, did. And every shot that shouldn't, didn't, guess what. Whining galore. And of course, as long as there's fluke, there's something I can blame it on.
Until the voices with weight stop the fluky excuse, it will be the norm. Until those voices grow up and realize it isn't important, players will be blaming every disc in the grass as a fluke.
BTW - the notion of controlling flukiness is my new guide to life. I'm setting up a company, fraudulent of course, called Fluky Be Gone. We aim to eliminate the fluke that's been holding you back.