American Thinker
September 10, 2020
On Covid and Race, Sports Suddenly Ignore Analytics
By C. Edmund Wright
Excerpt:
What has happened with big time sports’ fascination with crunching all kinds of numbers and statistics? Has this fascination with stats vanished in lieu of a political agenda with respect to the Covid and the BLM protests? Is getting rid of Donald Trump worth obliterating multi-billion-dollar operations? Do they have any idea what they are doing to themselves? These are open questions, and the answers carry monstrous cultural, political and economic ramifications.
Consider:
Since the biographically accurate book Moneyball came out in 2004, exposing how the low budget Oakland A’s baseball team used sabermetrics and counterintuitive player selection to build a winning team on a shoestring, the use of analytics in every aspect of sports has exploded. Coaches and general managers, to varying degrees, depend on crunching numbers in drafting and trading players, allocating playing time, and determining offensive and defensives strategies for their personnel.
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The politicization of sports is a STUPID idea!
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