Quote from: JD on January 26, 2009, 09:43:19 AMQuote from: RV on January 26, 2009, 09:37:15 AMQuote from: JD on January 26, 2009, 09:32:01 AMQuote from: ChuckD on January 26, 2009, 09:26:49 AMQuote from: Tank on January 26, 2009, 09:23:17 AMQuote from: Bonk on January 26, 2009, 09:17:24 AM
I looked through the entire link and did a search and still can't find out what the fuck ZORP is supposed to stand for.
I'm with you guys on the statfags. A friend of a friend of mine claims he can manage a baseball team better than an MLB manager using just Sabremetrics. Then again, he's a Reds fan, so he probably could do a better job than Dustfuck.
Sabremetrics stats are mildly interesting to evaluate for people that realize they're just tools, not a way for computer geeks who've never played baseball to claim they're baseball experts because they wrote a few formulas in an Excel spreadsheet.
This has all the makings of a wonderful day at Desipio.
That is, if you faggots don't go and fuck it all up.
Which you probably will.
Oh yeah? How do you know that? I bet you added up some probabilitizations or something, statfaggot. So, here is some numbers you can understand: you should 100% fuck off, nerd.
What in the world? What is wrong with you guys? Listen, statistics can be a beautiful thing and they don't lie. I thought you guys loved to add and divide. Remember that time RV taught me to subtract. NOW, I can't stop doing it! I think we all just need to step back and realize that math is here to stay. Personally, I feel a lot---A LOT---better about my cubs manager if he doesn't have to just WATCH the game to figure things out. Sure, that's ONE way to do it, but what about him looking at the scorebard and seeing that Aramis Ramirez has a lot of homers and saying "that guy has power...he's one of our power hitters...he should hit 4th or somewhere"? I think that's a plus(ADDITION). We can all get along. It's not like some guy's talking about being ghey or something. We're all dudes in here and out there.
That's some good perspective right there. I'll just add that in all my years I've never seen an Excel formula hit a bases-clearing triple or rub some neosporin on a teammate's infected boil.
Yeah, but how did you KNOW it was a triple? What? I couldn't hear you. Yeah. That's right. Math.
Circle gets the square root of 64 multiplied by 7 minus 4 equals a win for me and math.
Fellas, we can argue statistics until we blew in our faces, but it's not gonna change the perplexion of the game as it stands right now. But, I'll do it if that's what it's gonna take to turn some heads. It's on like donkey dong.
10 things even worse than Alfonso Soriano:
1-9. This post.
10. Communism.