@agraybee The theory of mind in progressive candidate selection is just awful. People were so convinced that the Everyman would love Fetterman because he was fat and wore hoodies. Because thats how they view the general public. Everyone who believed that should just stop trying.
@hiromaya_art When I flew into Tokyo Haneda, I laughed at an ad describing, in detail, a bike accident, injury, and associated medical bill. It was for travel insurance. In America, it would have a photo of someone with a cast, an arrow saying “$2500,” and the words “Buy travel insurance!”
@AdmiralBear01 It’s a little silly to compare obviously farcical rule changes to a change that Wenger and FIFA advocate currently implemented in the Canadian top-flight league
@JustinMacmahan These stats do exist—xGOT takes the specific shot into account and is fairly common. xT, expected threat, is a more advanced stat but it purports to measure the value of buildup even not resulting in a shot.
@justalexoki My screen time is currently off the charts, I remember dreams every night, and I can’t ever recall scrolling in any. Possibly calling the police.
@Jwolf443@SamENole@HowTheProsDo@bordersroad But it would be far easier for an attacker to stay onside in the box, and they wouldn’t be punished for poor defensive play as Iran was. The decisions would still be binary, but with more reasonable deference to the attack.
@Ceruti But think about the actual process of staying onside as an attacker, not just the decision after the fact. Far easier and more reasonable for fast-paced box play under the Wenger rule OR the proposed torso rule than it is currently.
@Lax_CoachD@NavyStrang And any adjustment—Id be happy with the torso compromise— necessarily benefits attackers more in box play than in open-field defense, as if you’re timing a run an extra half-meter of allowance is a split second, and I don’t think would impact strategy as much as for a header.
@Lax_CoachD@NavyStrang As for the low block issue, it’s a fair criticism but hardly a certainty. It’s really difficult to predict the impact of a rule after multiple iterations in strategy. It hasn’t borne out too poorly in the CPL trial.
@gyykdx44ng@blankslate2017@CaptainMcKlide But there is a good argument that the slow pace of modern scoring, and the capricious origins of many goals (corner clusterfucks, penalties), introduce quite a bit of randomness to the result of an individual match.
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@VolsAF If you want attackers to be more capable of playing by the rule intentionally, and not be punished for defensive malposition in the box (Iran), the Wenger rule is equally binary but eminently more reasonable.