10-08-2023, 12:45 AM
(10-07-2023, 11:51 PM)kruddler link Wrote:I'm not claiming to be an oracle.
You kind of are...
(10-07-2023, 09:37 AM)kruddler link Wrote:If you predict what going to happen based on the team that's picked....and then it happens...is that dumb luck? Coincidence? Perhaps it's people knowing a thing or 2 about football.
Which kind of suggests that folks who disagree don't know as much about football.
Yet some of those very posters were 'predicting' that we'd struggle to make it through because of the physical toll of the fightback... and injuries.
So in the end they were just as correct.
They obvioulsy know a little bit about football and its demands.
It's not always about being right, or having the last word.
We have to accept that sometimes our analysis won't always be shared by others, because they're seeing different things.
We can look at a player or team, make an observation, and then find stats to justify that observation.
But often we'll look at those stats with a bias, and ignore other aspects or statistics that give a slightly different perspective.
The thing about football is that it's not always the statistical/analytical side that wins through.
Football is just as much about the unpredictable.... the player rising to the occasion, the result against the odds...injuries.
That's the beauty of the game.