MLB: 2017

[Headhunter]

This one gotta top any dumb sports conspiracy theory I've ever heard. You don't even have a motive that makes any practical sense.

[Headhunter]

How many peoples do you figure are in on the conspiracy that's artificially inflating certain players' WAR and not others?

Not sure. WAR is a conspiracy in itself. Could be dozens, could be hundreds.

Would require coordination between all 30 teams with not one person coming out publicly, even anonymously. At least hundreds of people all working silently, nobody leaking anything. Yeah.

"Non-standardized statistic" should already raise red flags to even the untrained sports eye.

Yup, we should immediately conclude it's a massively coordinated conspiracy with no practical motivation in any economic sense. Conspiracies have to have some at least flimsy logical basis. Or you can just call anything you don't like a "conspiracy".

[Jason]

How many peoples do you figure are in on the conspiracy that's artificially inflating certain players' WAR and not others?

Not sure. WAR is a conspiracy in itself. Could be dozens, could be hundreds.

Would require coordination between all 30 teams with not one person coming out publicly, even anonymously. At least hundreds of people all working silently, nobody leaking anything. Yeah.

"Non-standardized statistic" should already raise red flags to even the untrained sports eye.

Yup, we should immediately conclude it's a massively coordinated conspiracy with no practical motivation in any economic sense.

Well, when it labels itself as a what-if/non-standardized form of gathering statistics and is clearly a retarded stat with no merit on actually measuring talent, then I agree. Worst stat of all time. WOAT.

[Headhunter]

How many peoples do you figure are in on the conspiracy that's artificially inflating certain players' WAR and not others?

Not sure. WAR is a conspiracy in itself. Could be dozens, could be hundreds.

Would require coordination between all 30 teams with not one person coming out publicly, even anonymously. At least hundreds of people all working silently, nobody leaking anything. Yeah.

"Non-standardized statistic" should already raise red flags to even the untrained sports eye.

Yup, we should immediately conclude it's a massively coordinated conspiracy with no practical motivation in any economic sense.

Well, when it labels itself as a what-if/non-standardized form of gathering statistics and is clearly a retarded stat with no merit on actually measuring talent, then I agree. Worst stat of all time. WOAT.

So you actually have no argument, you just don't like it. If only it rated every Rockies player near the top at their position, then they would understand baseball.

[Headhunter]

Didn't you once say the RBI was one of the most important individual stats in baseball? You're about up to a 1955 understanding of how to measure talent. In 30-40 years, you'll understand WAR.

[Jason]

How many peoples do you figure are in on the conspiracy that's artificially inflating certain players' WAR and not others?

Not sure. WAR is a conspiracy in itself. Could be dozens, could be hundreds.

Would require coordination between all 30 teams with not one person coming out publicly, even anonymously. At least hundreds of people all working silently, nobody leaking anything. Yeah.

"Non-standardized statistic" should already raise red flags to even the untrained sports eye.

Yup, we should immediately conclude it's a massively coordinated conspiracy with no practical motivation in any economic sense.

Well, when it labels itself as a what-if/non-standardized form of gathering statistics and is clearly a retarded stat with no merit on actually measuring talent, then I agree. Worst stat of all time. WOAT.

So you actually have no argument, you just don't like it. If only it rated every Rockies player near the top at their position, then they would understand baseball.

My argument has already been put on the table. It is a phony stat that isn't even remotely accurate at measuring talent. Every Rockies player could be sitting pretty atop the list for all I know. I haven't even looked at it once this year because it a useless stat and a waste of time. But my best guess is Trout is sitting among the top five with Harper trailing a few notches and Aaron Judge sitting far and away on top all of a sudden. Was I close?

I don't even need an argument. Its very definition calls itself retarded and not to be trusted.

[Jason]

Didn't you once say the RBI was one of the most important individual stats in baseball? You're about up to a 1955 understanding of how to measure talent. In 30-40 years, you'll understand WAR.

Batting average surpasses RBI. Do you know why? Because it is perfect in its simplicity. A guy hitting .250 gets a hit 25% of the time he comes up to bat. Pretty remarkable stuff! Not to mention it's the most sought after statistic in all of baseball. Does this mean best avg = best player? No. There are countless other factors in play. Still more accurate at measuring talent than WAR, though.

[Jason]

My favorite thing about WAR is you can calculate it however you want! Many sites use different methods to come up with their retarded shit and no matter how different the method, it still adds up to WAR! Wow. It's a stat that was literally created so people can make up bull shit. It calls itself non-standardized/what-if, it even states it's only "an attempt" to measure a player's talent, and you can use different methods that add up to different stats.

I mean, it's all but screaming "I am a retarded stat and full of shit!!".

[Reign in Blood]

I just worked the google. It told me you guys don't know what WAR is good for.

[Jason]

Absolutely fuckin nothin.

[Jason]

Rocks up 2-1 in the 8th, relievers give up back-to-back homers. Rocks down 3-2 in the bottom of the 8th. Nolan comes through for the 2nd consecutive game on a two-run triple to ultimately win the game. Unreal.

[Jason]

Man. Great photo after Sunday's win of a great human. Never thought I'd see the day where a player would even come close to matching Todd Helton as favorite Rocky of all time, but Nolan is already close.

[Jason]

Gotta see 'em to believe 'em. Look at how fired up he is after the two-run triple in the second video. Lock him up for life. He is the face of Colorado.

[Headhunter]

I think Von would disagee, sir. If the Rockies win the World Series and he balls out in the playoffs, yes.

I think we're headed for a Rockies/Dodgers NLCS.

[Headhunter]

Cody Bellinger the first rookie to hit 10 HRs in 10 games. Unreal.

[Jason]

I meant the face of the Rockies.

Rockies/Dodgers might be headed to a one-game playoff. A shame, really. The shit ass Brewers or someone from the Central is going to be like 80-82 with a guaranteed playoff series while two 99-100 win teams have to eliminate each other from making it. Pretty shitty. Just gotta hope the Rocks win the division. The three best records in all of the NL are in the NL West, with the Rockies sitting barely ahead. They would've fallen to third if they had lost today.

[Headhunter]

Shit I keep forgetting about the Diamondbacks. I'd like to see them out of the way.

[Jason]

If I had to choose, I'd much rather see Loss Angeles fuck off.

[Jason]

Rad picture of some Coors Lightning tonight.

[Jason]

The Angels are literally rejecting some of the silly baseball analytic stats I'm talking about.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/la ... story.html