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That contract is absurd.

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Not too sure why I'm responding to this as it's obviously just an attempt to bait me into some long drawn-out thing where you can get off crafting 2,000 word responses that nobody reads. Regardless, I'm pretty sure you're alluding to a couple of posts I made months ago where I said something like "risk management is more philosophy than math in complex domains" and how things like the Gaussian-Copula, Black-Scholes (+ extensions), VaR and others are destructive examples of trying to shoehorn reality into a model rather than vice-versa. Given that you're an MBA with insecurity issues, this offended you greatly as such pseudo-intellectual tools made up the majority of your "technical" Bschool education. The resulting tirade was for the most part not even wrong. If the first sentence of this paragraph still reads as nonsense, I sincerely feel for anybody you may be running money for. Speaking of physics, I'm still wondering if you could clarify for us why the term "General Theory of Relativity" was invalid despite it's common usage among subject matter experts (ie people who do real science). I'm guessing it's closely related to your insistence that the general theory has nothing to do with the speed of light and how it's completely unrelated to special relativity. And if you want to talk about statistics, expand upon why you think JFAS' preseason projections were so awful (something you've been rattling on like a lunatic for the past month or so). What testing did you do to come to that conclusion? Do you even know how you would test his projections? How do they compare to the yet to be linked to Moogy projections?

Changing a QB is the most significant roster move in professional sports. Going from Cassel to someone who could be average to above average might make the Vikings a true talent 8-8 team or so. GBis obviously better with Rodgers but I was expecting the line to be 7. 9 is alot.

GB -9 is the line with Teddy. Seems a bit high. Maybe.

Nothing ruins a Thursday Night Football matchup like a Christian Ponder sighting.

Teddy vs Rodgers on Thursday night this week? Yes please.

R is the bee's knees. dplyr, tidyr and everything created by Andrew Gelman ftw. SAS is an expensive s***-stain of a platform that would already be phased out if some large companies weren't so wrongly terrified of things developed in the public domain. "Dickhead IT Boss: Well, lets see here Bob. R is being rapidly developed and supported by a gigantic community that has the sharpest thinkers in Bayesian Analysis/ML/DM creating extensions for it with supporting peer reviewed academic literature. It's also in a language that will seem pretty familiar for any developers we want to train up on it." "56 Year Old Middle Manager Bob (wearing a wrinkled Mike Weir golf shirt that's at least 8 years old): All true but I heard it's free. We can't possibly trust something like that can we?" "Dickhead IT Boss: It is!?! Oh that can't be good. We better stick with SAS. I can't possibly think of a better use for this $10M we pay in licensing anyways. So really, R wouldn't even save us any real $." "Bob: I think we really dodged a bullet there."

The very least you could do is get the numbers right.

Come on, Jim.

Playing time qualifiers do not make sense for a list like that. Player health is both a skill and something that you pay for. Throwing limited playing time players out only makes sense if you're looking at a player's "skill when healthy" in isolation. That's not what you pay for with a contract and that's not what should be listed here.

There's a meme in here somewhere.

And yet the ratings have hit record highs. The league is not in trouble....at all...despite what all these mouthpieces on ESPN want us to believe. I think most people are rational enough to not let a few *******s ruin the entire sport for them. Goodell's run should probably be over now though.

If there was one thing wrong with the Toronto Blue Jays' 2014 season, it was definitely the lack of bunts. Definitely.

Conversely, Peyton Manning is probably the least mobile player in the league. All else being equal, mobility helps a QB. Despite him not being good (or even average) at all aspects of the game, he was without question the MVP last year. This is all just very wrong. Why does is matter that a .700 OPS player might be the most valuable player in the league? If his outcomes had the most positive effect on his team's run differential, he is the most valuable. How he gets there is pretty irrelevant. The Ozzie Smith argument doesn't move the needle. That era was operating on far less information and quite frankly teams barely knew who was good. Andre Dawson won an MVP despite not being a top 50 player that year. Mitch Williams got MVP votes two years later.

Looks like the male version of Cristiano Ronaldo in these pics.

So in football I guess QBs shouldn't be assigned the value they do either just because it "isn't fair" to the other positions...or something? That was hard to read.

God f***ing dammit.

To be fair to the players, any projection system that outputs G/A/P/traditional metric X is going to have a healthy amount of Randy's terrible system baked in.

Even Cooler Heads Prevail is unsure about the Phaneuf contract.

Only $49 M left on his contract. That's ok though right?

Those Leafs projections are ugly.

Lol @ #AfterDaysOfResearch

I guess we found another thing Mike Wilner is terrible at.

Seems reasonable.