Originally posted by TheWooLick:
The eye test is used most often to counter reality based statistics.
Our eye tests are nearly meaningless compared to measurables.
No. That's just categorically false. Eye tests are what has caused humans to begin measuring things to begin with.
Statistics are used to support the eye test. Details and evidence support the subjective thesis statement. That's what we all learned in school, right?
Hopefully I don't have to post boring school stuff to show something so obvious. Statistics are not arguments. What we do here is argue, just in case you haven't noticed, lol.
What you'd like to do is
take a set of numbers to your choosing and severely overstate the importance of them since people have different subjective opinions. That's just not how numbers are to be used,...especially in a sport like football no less.
You subjectively give QBs you like personal credit for win-loss records, for example. With 22 players on the field, after games, you subjectively want to give the credit to one player, no matter what the statistical evidence says. So please don't pretend to be a statistics buff because you have shown over and over that you have no interest in what they really say.
1 out of 11 is a statistic. You do know that, right? Well, this doesn't stop you from calling W/L records a QB stat, when factually, it's clearly a team stat. So what you like to do here is pick and choose.
Logically, no matter how many times we argue or disagree about it, it's just never going to make sense and the world around us is the evidence of it.
[ Edited by random49er on Jan 18, 2023 at 6:29 PM ]