It's wild to me how midwits can think that doing what everyone else does is somehow going to merit results. the contrarians are always the ones who excel. The contrarians often times fail miserably as well, but a surefire path to mediocrity is to do what everyone else is doing and think you're smart for doing it. The reason why analytics was an edge 20 years ago is BECAUSE it was contrarian. To fundamentally be an edge, it must be a strategy that isn't widely used. That's an inherent criterion of an "edge". These people need to grow some balls.
There is NO way that there isn't a few talented QBs buried on rosters for whatever reasons: being low draft stock, previous college injury, stud starter ahead, etc. We KNOW these GMs aren't that good, therefore there must be talent buried on rosters. These players can be had for cheap, allowing the unused resources to be spent on making a better roster everywhere else.
good point -- money ball only worked because no one was onto it. Then all these dorks with stats 1.01 under their belts thought they were geniuses, but had no edge at all.
that's what I would do, but the moneyball nerds took over and convinced everyone to take any QB in the hopes he would be Mahomes.
It's wild to me how midwits can think that doing what everyone else does is somehow going to merit results. the contrarians are always the ones who excel. The contrarians often times fail miserably as well, but a surefire path to mediocrity is to do what everyone else is doing and think you're smart for doing it. The reason why analytics was an edge 20 years ago is BECAUSE it was contrarian. To fundamentally be an edge, it must be a strategy that isn't widely used. That's an inherent criterion of an "edge". These people need to grow some balls.
There is NO way that there isn't a few talented QBs buried on rosters for whatever reasons: being low draft stock, previous college injury, stud starter ahead, etc. We KNOW these GMs aren't that good, therefore there must be talent buried on rosters. These players can be had for cheap, allowing the unused resources to be spent on making a better roster everywhere else.
good point -- money ball only worked because no one was onto it. Then all these dorks with stats 1.01 under their belts thought they were geniuses, but had no edge at all.