I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in any sort of a contest - financial, mental or physical - it's an enormous advantage to have opponents who have been taught that it's useless to even try. " I believe that over time value investors will outperform the market and that choosing to match it is both lazy and shortsighted.