Controversial sports opinion

[TheEgyptianConniption]

Air yards. Some of you guys go too far. Wrs having twice as many yards as your QB. Makes sense

 

[Vancouver Grizzly Fan]

The University of Michigan is the most overrated college program in the country. Outside of having some losers as the Fab 5 they've accomplished nothing in basketball nor done anything in football in 20 years.

Russell Wilson is not a elite QB and never will be.

James Harden and Russell Westbrook "stat padding" triple double chase is ruining the game of basketball and how it should be played.

College sports is better than pro sports. It's more entertaining and the unpredictable.

The only way hockey will ever be mainstream is if, it gets a black charismatic superstar player. PK is not him.

 

[We Ready]

that really happened?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts/index.html

 

[yseJ]

I dont understand people who like soccer but hate hockey. Hockey is soccer but smaller, faster, and with hitting and fighting. As a game its basically a better-in-every-way version of soccer

I dont 'hate' hockey, but Im rather indifferent to it, and I actually could skate somewhat decently as a kid. I love soccer tho, and they are pretty much completely different games.

it has some key differences. like youve said, smaller. soccer field is basically the size of a football field.

then, just like bball and football you dont use equipment that impedes/helps you. no skates, you use your own legs on grass, which is natural to humans. no sticks, you use your leg. maybe not as natural as hand, but still part of your own body. and obviously, its natural for humans across the world to run on grass. half the world doesnt even see ice, let alone skate on it.

more skill-based as a team that checks and hits well can hold their own in hockey, but in soccer a team that passes well vs a team of athletes/goons will simply not give them the ball and cause the other team to be more tired.

more 'fair' endurance. soccer has only 3 subs, and if you lose a player to injury having used all 3, tough luck. hockey has line changes almost at will. if someone is gassed, they can just change. you have to be much more in shape in terms of cardio for soccer. also with less stoppages, its even more taxing.

about the only thing hockey has on soccer to me is lack of awful flops.

 

[feelosofer]

Dez Bryant isn't an elite WR.

James Harden is the best PG in the NBA

I would take a PRIME Ben Rothlisberger over Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers

If boggles my mind why more teams don't spend more draft picks on picking potentially elite OL guards than tackles.

Andrew Luck is that happens when elite QBs end up on bad teams

 

[FTBS]

Dez Bryant isn't an elite WR.

James Harden is the best PG in the NBA

I would take a PRIME Ben Rothlisberger over Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers

If boggles my mind why more teams don't spend more draft picks on picking potentially elite OL guards than tackles.

Andrew Luck is that happens when elite QBs end up on bad teams

When was his prime and what are these qualities that he possessed then that puts him over them in your mind?

 

[The Fire]

Phil Jackson is not the greatest basketball coach of all-time.

Pop is definitely better

 

[The Fire]

I dont understand people who like soccer but hate hockey. Hockey is soccer but smaller, faster, and with hitting and fighting. As a game its basically a better-in-every-way version of soccer

 

[Spyro]

This already exists though.

Quarterback Air Yards: 2016 NFL Season

Drew Brees the GOAT coming through again

 

[the next guy]

baseball might pass football again the way things are looking now. NFL problems starting to pile up.

 

[Jerz-2]

women should be able to play college football and nfl with men.

i dont codone domestic violence/hitting women. but i am a pro feminist, and feel every woman deserves the right to get laid the fukk out by kam chancellor.

I had to show this to a co-worker in the next office cause he heard me laughing through the WALL and came in here to see what was so funny.

 

[Jerz-2]

Alternative stats is making fun of Trump's advisor calling lies "alternative facts" last night

That nikka been in HIDING, he ain't been up on current events.

 

[CourtesyFlush]

Every soccer player prob sucks dikk in their spare time

 

[Spyro]

I prefer to watch/follow individual sports rather than team sports

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Breh most the best minds and coaches and managers in sports can not only see this kind of shyt with their eyes but also log that info away in their minds

don't need a damn spreadsheet compiled by some geek who never sweated a day of training in his life to tell em how it is

Every single team in the league uses analytics in some way, shape or form - they have been for decades (especially in North American mainstream sports). Today for basketball: whether it be to look at how teams perform on back-to-backs/x-amount of days rest, what lineups are used for different situations, how efficient players/teams are from each spot of the floor, what percentage of type of plays teams run, what are the most efficient plays to run against certain types of defenses, what play situations a player is most efficient, what scheme percentages teams run on defense v different types of offensive sets, # of contested shots v quarter, when a particular player/team's speed/distance drop in which quarter, what percentages of spots a play is initiated; fastbreak v halfcourt v PP etc etc.

I ain't hating on advanced stats for the sake of it, baseball's advanced stats are LEGIT for obvious reasons but you damn near need a supercomputer with its own special software to properly make any sense of all the randomness that happens in sports Like basketball, soccer and hockey and make it into truly usable advanctes stats

It seems to me you're wrongly equating advanced stats to solely being formulated metrics (VORP, PER, RPM etc etc), like most folk do - that's not what I'm talking about.

And none of that data would ever see the light of day on nba.com or any public site

There's a ton of data out there on public sites that's "usable" which paints a clearer picture of impact than a standard box score does. My post you quoted is evidence of this - you can find contested rebounds on NBA.com - a measurement which is more accurate of how much impact a player has on the glass rather than just taking rebounds as a whole.