[Discussion] State of the field of statistics in Snooker?

As a football (soccer, to my American cousins)and snooker fan, I know data is playing a bigger and bigger role in football (recruitment, form, tactics). But snooker is a nearly static system by comparison. In principle, good data could almost guarantee a win, by which I mean, if a capable AI robot was properly trained on extensive enough data it could potentially win the world championship over and over, regardless of the competition. So my question is, to what extent do data analytics feature in the modern game of snooker?