Re: MLB: 2017
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 2:15 am
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.
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 wrote:"Non-standardized statistic" should already raise red flags to even the untrained sports eye.Headhunter wrote: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.Jason wrote:Not sure. WAR is a conspiracy in itself. Could be dozens, could be hundreds.Headhunter wrote:How many peoples do you figure are in on the conspiracy that's artificially inflating certain players' WAR and not others?
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 wrote:Yup, we should immediately conclude it's a massively coordinated conspiracy with no practical motivation in any economic sense.Jason wrote:"Non-standardized statistic" should already raise red flags to even the untrained sports eye.Headhunter wrote: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.Jason wrote:Not sure. WAR is a conspiracy in itself. Could be dozens, could be hundreds.Headhunter wrote:How many peoples do you figure are in on the conspiracy that's artificially inflating certain players' WAR and not others?
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.Jason wrote: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 wrote:Yup, we should immediately conclude it's a massively coordinated conspiracy with no practical motivation in any economic sense.Jason wrote:"Non-standardized statistic" should already raise red flags to even the untrained sports eye.Headhunter wrote: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.Jason wrote:Not sure. WAR is a conspiracy in itself. Could be dozens, could be hundreds.Headhunter wrote:How many peoples do you figure are in on the conspiracy that's artificially inflating certain players' WAR and not others?
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?Headhunter wrote: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.Jason wrote: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 wrote:Yup, we should immediately conclude it's a massively coordinated conspiracy with no practical motivation in any economic sense.Jason wrote:"Non-standardized statistic" should already raise red flags to even the untrained sports eye.Headhunter wrote: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.Jason wrote:Not sure. WAR is a conspiracy in itself. Could be dozens, could be hundreds.Headhunter wrote:How many peoples do you figure are in on the conspiracy that's artificially inflating certain players' WAR and not others?
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.Headhunter wrote: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.