Black people don't used sports analytics

[Professor Emeritus]

According to Michael Wilborn.

Mission Impossible: African Americans & Analytics

The mission was to find black folks who spend anytime talking about advanced analytics, whose conversations are framed by — or even casually include references to — win shares or effective shooting percentage, WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) or points per 100 possessions. It’s a failed mission so far. Totally empty. Conclusion: Advanced analytics and black folks hardly ever mix. Set aside the tiny handful of black men who make a living somewhere in the sports industry dealing directly with the numbers and there is absolutely zero mingling.

So every poster using sports analytics here is White....

 

[HoopLife]

Fukk Wilborn, he's a co0n

 

[PhonZhi]

Reminds me of hiphop when dudes say "only cacs care about the technical aspect of rapping".

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I should add that Wilborn exposes himself as an idiot:

One stat, according to ESPN Stats & Information, assigned Curry some number in excess of 100 for his 3-point sniping from the corners. This tells you just how bogus the exercise is if the “percentage” reports to be greater than 100.

It’s like calculating points per 100 possessions, a very popular go-to stat in NBA circles. Why is that more important than points per 48 minutes, which is the actual time in which an NBA game is played?

I hope someone explains it to him really slow. Write a whole article about why analytics are useless for basketball and then shovel complete ignorance right into the middle of it.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

When I try to bring up advanced stats a lot of my boys tell me that numbers don't tell the whole game so I STFU about it

I don't think it's a black or white thing tho because even the non-black people I talk to about sports look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language when I talk about PER or shyt like that

 

[Ain't That Something]

So he uses baseball a sport that black folk barely watches mean ess want to discuss analytics as an ex. when this very board alone you is filled with nikkas like @Z-Bo's Deep Thoughts that will argue you to death with stat sheet, videos, and power points

That nikka Wilbon looking funny in the light

 

[lotteryplaya]

Wilbon and his tapdancing best buddy Charles Barkley love to speak for all black people.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

When I try to bring up advanced stats a lot of my boys tell me that numbers don't tell the whole game so I STFU about it

I don't think it's a black or white thing tho because even the non-black people I talk to about sports look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language when I talk about PER or shyt like that

Advance stats just blur what I can actually SEE from a player...I hate relying on JUST stats when it comes to sports. I like to maybe go 40% Stats 60% eye test.

 

[CrimsonTider]

He's right

And this isn't an indictment on anyone

 

[The American]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/michael-wilbon-black-folks-and-analytics-dont-mix.430293/

 

[cKondomsucK6]

According to Michael Wilborn.

Mission Impossible: African Americans & Analytics






So every poster using sports analytics here is White....

yup its cacs who aren't athletic and don't actually play the sport trying to figure out how to win with fukking math and science equations

 

[Professor Emeritus]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/michael-wilbon-black-folks-and-analytics-dont-mix.430293/

Look what time he posted. Look what time I posted.