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everyone is looking for an edge, I still don't know that analytics are as useful in sports like football and hockey as people like to believe.

But the point is that it's mostly a scouting tool, whether it's self scouting or scouting players on other teams. I've said this plenty in lots of places, but any kind of statistics are only as valuable as the people interpreting them. Knowing how to use the numbers is far more important than actually having the numbers.

McFarlane seems to be a huge fan of Star Trek though so I would say it's less about making fun of it and rather paying homage to. So you don't even get your wish there.

But the hawks use it mostly as a scouting tool, and they use stuff that the fans and bloggers don't track. Plus in hockey it also has some discrepancy between stats and reality. Best example is Kris Russell. Guy has bad fancy stats yet still a good player and it drives stats nerds bonkers

The reason baseball works is because it's a series of one vs. one battles. Works less well in team play.

No the only reason people want these stats is so that they can make definitive claims without having to watch every minute. Players don't need them to know what they need to improve on, it's purely so you can make a judgement call on someone without having spent an exhaustive amount of time watching the player.

plus with all the ambiguity in what stats matter for a qb it makes it a hell of a lot easier to argue about who is better, which pairs nicely with drinking.

And for these reasons maybe we need to stop trying. I mean it's a position that really does rely on so many other people doing their job correctly it seems like a lot of wasted effort trying to distil an individual into a catch all stat that tells how good or bad they are. Can't we just watch the games and judge who is good and who isn't?

That's probably the biggest thing. I don't imagine that rugby has any more concussion problems than football and those guys play a physical game, they just have to make proper tackles and aren't trying to turn themselves into missiles to take the lazy way out of tackling.

You know the season is close when the rider fans start coming out of their holes.

could be worse, could be a guy that never played at all.

#MikeLivesMatter

I for one always dislike massive catch all threads. Your policy is bad and you should feel bad.

THIS. I dunno why people are dragging up names from 15+ years ago to try and argue but the CFL is a different game now, avoiding turnovers is arguably the most key thing right now so you can't expect to win when your qbs are tossing higher numbers of ints. Just doesn't happen in the CFL today.

Huh? You could do a LOT worse than Schneider as a starter, just because he plays in New Jersey doesn't mean he's not a bonafide starting goal tender. Dude is legit.

with Ogopogo around he wasn't going to play much anyway barring injury.

He knows a thing or two about winning, if that was ever a concern.

you don't have to do a 180, you just have to stop trying to outshine something that was fantastic like Ledger did. This was a try hard edge lord Joker and it sucked all kinds of ass.

part of that is also reliant on who is managing the team and if they want that player.

Does it though? I mean there's lots of wishful thinking from the fans but as far as the actuality I don't think there's ever a lot of serious talk about guys wanting to come him, but there was with Harris and there is with Demski so we shall see.

Oh god please no, worst part of that movie and that really says something. He came across more like Jim Carey than anything else and it was just bad, really bad. Tried to be edgy and just came across as a douchebag. #MethodActing

Regarding Nichols I think whether or not he is elite is really irrelevant. We have seen that given the support from the rest of the team that he is capable of winning games for this team so really what more can we ask for? Get the D to a point where they're not giving up free drives and this team can beat anyone.

2 ******* passes do not define a guys career. Holy **** you would think he was out there handing the ball to the other team all the god damned time the way some people talk.

Absolutely ridiculous. "Cultural appropriation" has happened since different cultures first started interacting with each other. Sharing elements of each individual culture enriches all cultures and should be embraced and celebrated.

Quoted for truth. It's been nice having some Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs to distract us for a while but god damn is it great to have the CFL coming back right away.