This is a brilliant piece, and this is the type of content that is hugely valuable right now: trying to figure out what we are watching and sort through it from a macro perspective. Incredibly valuable content, bravo 👏
but also - my one sort of reservation about all this is - what percentage of what we're seeing is a continuation of trends that grew out of the chess over the last few years, and how much is an adjustment we have to make now that weeks 1-2 are essentially a sloppy extension of pre-season? how will the run rates, bad conservatism, bad QB play, etc. look in another two weeks? not suggesting a big shift, but a very plausible one...
When I was a season-ticket holder, I hated that they forced me to pay for the preseason games the same prices as the regular season ones. (They could charge the same total, and just change the game prices -- it's not fucking rocket science.) But since they almost all stopped playing their players in the preseason, boy the first few games of the regular season have suffered. I'm not sure if has actually changed the injury impact, but I really do believe it has changed the quality of play.
i like the idea of IDing the fun offensive environments - i had DM'd Ryan while I was a little stoned about somehow coming up with a numbers-driven way to do just this - like even just binary thresholding for PROE > X, neutral pass rate > X, etc. - but coaching personnel changes so fast, it's hard to have any steady "guide" like that
This is a brilliant piece, and this is the type of content that is hugely valuable right now: trying to figure out what we are watching and sort through it from a macro perspective. Incredibly valuable content, bravo 👏
but also - my one sort of reservation about all this is - what percentage of what we're seeing is a continuation of trends that grew out of the chess over the last few years, and how much is an adjustment we have to make now that weeks 1-2 are essentially a sloppy extension of pre-season? how will the run rates, bad conservatism, bad QB play, etc. look in another two weeks? not suggesting a big shift, but a very plausible one...
hopefully we see a shift for sure, but we're also going to see teams get more and more injured so its a double edged sword
How can i dislike? 😂😭
When I was a season-ticket holder, I hated that they forced me to pay for the preseason games the same prices as the regular season ones. (They could charge the same total, and just change the game prices -- it's not fucking rocket science.) But since they almost all stopped playing their players in the preseason, boy the first few games of the regular season have suffered. I'm not sure if has actually changed the injury impact, but I really do believe it has changed the quality of play.
i like the idea of IDing the fun offensive environments - i had DM'd Ryan while I was a little stoned about somehow coming up with a numbers-driven way to do just this - like even just binary thresholding for PROE > X, neutral pass rate > X, etc. - but coaching personnel changes so fast, it's hard to have any steady "guide" like that
i see that Edmund Burke reference...