Reason #700-#704 why the NFL Draft is absurd.
#700 No one knows how successful players will be, but act is if this is a video game strategy guide listing players' abilities. So, draft post draft grades and etc. are ridiculous.
#701 It's all misinformation. Teams have no reason or benefit to be honest and forthcoming.
#702 It's something that has been blown out of proportion for television purposes.
#703 It's lazy, speculative, consensus-building, nonsensical-babble where hindsight is 20-20 and the result is played too often.
#704 Media members comparing their draft boards to scout's and GM's boards.
SPortynation, I leave you with this. It is easy to criticize what someone else does whether or not it is music, investments, paintings, sculptures, and/or draft boards. But, when it is you, your sole decision and opportunity what would you do? Would your decision be better or just as good. What would your draft board look like sans outside influence. We are anchoring and adjusting to opinions. For example, Mel Kiper, a merely ok football analyst that is as mainstream as they come that reaches the masses because of his lazy declarations, easy stances, and monosyllabic tendencies states his point of view and then "we" as an audience adjust to what he says and base our opinions off of dribble.
Keep thinking. This is my Minority Report.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Wow Stat #2
The Washington Nationals as a team have more walks than strike outs. A relief pitcher leads the team in strikeouts! O my! O my! O my!
This is my my Minority Report factoid.
This is my my Minority Report factoid.
Wow Stat of the Day
On average, the Yankees' 2009 gate receipts for a seven-game home series were greater than the Pirates' gate receipts for the entire year.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Worst Best Coach Ever
Sooo I woke up to reports that Doc Rivers may step down after the season. Ohh Snap, Sportynation! Here we go again. It seems Doc Rivers sucks yet again. Doc Rivers was the coach of the year in 2000 for the 41-41 Orlando Magic and was the leader of a fantastic World Championship 08-09 Boston Celtic team. (Disclaimer: Doc Rivers' departure has being framed as a departure on his own volition ala Stan VanGundy in Miami.)
"Things are not what the seem"-Disclosure 1994
The typical sports guy, which is certainly not limited to "us" regular folk and extends to people in the mainstream media, too often fall into the trap of mis-attributing outcomes and occurrences. To further illustrate and display some of the more egregious or rather noteworthy, Mike Brown '08-'09, Byron Scott '07-'08, Sam Mitchell '06-'07, Avery Johnson '05-'06, Mike D'Antoni '04-'05, and Hubie Brown '03-'04 won the last 6 Coach of the Year Awards. Not only do these coaches share this award, but also they have been straight up fired, not re-signed, let go, and/or called awful. 1 of the 6 last coaches of the year is still with the same team. And, the only coach that remains with the same team, Mike Brown, is widely accepted to be awful, unimaginative, and powerless.
Sportynation, I find it hard to believe that all of these coaches were absolutely fantastic and great and the best in world at what they do, coach, but a year or two later are terrible. There has to be more at play than than the easy/lazy attribution and overstatement of the coach's worth. I am of the camp that believes that players such Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire, LeBron James, Pau Gasol, Chris Bosh, and Chris Paul are more responsible for the team's ultimate success rather than the coach. Indeed, the coach has some importance, but that importance seems to be greatly overstated.
A real life example can be found in day to day business. Simplistically, juxtapose the leader with the absolute best employees in the world with the leader with the worst employees in the world. The leader with the best employees will more often than not be more successful.
Sportynation, all I am saying is that we shouldn't act in haste. We should think more and not automatically take the easy points of view and stances by default. Without a doubt, the leader is the dominant image of the team, company, but there are workers as well. Without workers, the leader is nothing particularly in a ridiculously highly specialized industry, professional sports, where the workers value/worth is amplified and tremendous, and the coach's value diminished. The workers are paid more than the coach or leader for a multitude of reasons that I will tangentially explore in a future post.
Sportynation, be smart, be different, and try something new. This is my Minority Report.
"Things are not what the seem"-Disclosure 1994
The typical sports guy, which is certainly not limited to "us" regular folk and extends to people in the mainstream media, too often fall into the trap of mis-attributing outcomes and occurrences. To further illustrate and display some of the more egregious or rather noteworthy, Mike Brown '08-'09, Byron Scott '07-'08, Sam Mitchell '06-'07, Avery Johnson '05-'06, Mike D'Antoni '04-'05, and Hubie Brown '03-'04 won the last 6 Coach of the Year Awards. Not only do these coaches share this award, but also they have been straight up fired, not re-signed, let go, and/or called awful. 1 of the 6 last coaches of the year is still with the same team. And, the only coach that remains with the same team, Mike Brown, is widely accepted to be awful, unimaginative, and powerless.
Sportynation, I find it hard to believe that all of these coaches were absolutely fantastic and great and the best in world at what they do, coach, but a year or two later are terrible. There has to be more at play than than the easy/lazy attribution and overstatement of the coach's worth. I am of the camp that believes that players such Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire, LeBron James, Pau Gasol, Chris Bosh, and Chris Paul are more responsible for the team's ultimate success rather than the coach. Indeed, the coach has some importance, but that importance seems to be greatly overstated.
A real life example can be found in day to day business. Simplistically, juxtapose the leader with the absolute best employees in the world with the leader with the worst employees in the world. The leader with the best employees will more often than not be more successful.
Sportynation, all I am saying is that we shouldn't act in haste. We should think more and not automatically take the easy points of view and stances by default. Without a doubt, the leader is the dominant image of the team, company, but there are workers as well. Without workers, the leader is nothing particularly in a ridiculously highly specialized industry, professional sports, where the workers value/worth is amplified and tremendous, and the coach's value diminished. The workers are paid more than the coach or leader for a multitude of reasons that I will tangentially explore in a future post.
Sportynation, be smart, be different, and try something new. This is my Minority Report.
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