Interestingly the idea is not hat far removed from what Graham Taylor used to form the tactics that took Watford from the fourth division to second in the first division.
I remember seeing an article about just this somewhere and the conclusion was that it is likely to be used more and more by teams assessing individual players ability as well as opposition. The view of this article was also that gamblers, such as Tony Bloom, put an awful lot of weight on such stats.