i dont even watch asoiaf youtube videos and somehow my algorithm knows im in deep cause this is the shit in my recommendations now. like sure okay this is important info
Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first-year analytics intern. You just got finished reading some Sabermetric historian—Bill James, probably. You’re gonna be convinced of that ’til next month when you get to the latest Pitching+ update, and then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how SIERA is the only "true" measure of skill because it accounts for the complexity of the batted ball profile to CSW rates.
You have no thoughts of your own. You’re just looking at a movement plot and trying to sound smart. You’re gonna realize in a couple of years that you spent all that time calculating "Expected FIP" based on a "Skill-Interactive" ghost, when you could’ve just looked at the K/BB ratio and seen the whole picture.
The sad thing is, in about five years, you’re gonna realize you’re not that bright. You’re gonna be talkin’ about Skenes’ "Expected ERA" while the real experts are just looking at a box score and realizing that if a guy doesn't walk people and he misses bats, he's gonna be fine.
You dropped $100,000 on a Data Science degree to learn how to run a regression on a pitcher's "luck," when you could’ve gotten the same predictive value for five cents in late charges by looking at a K/BB leader board at the public library.
Tech people’s most incredible achievement in the last decade (besides making Windows even worse) is that they have made even the most hated finance guys seem tasteful and self-aware by comparison. At least they knew they weren’t doing anyone a fucking favor by clocking in
sitting in front of my ai cyberpunk greenscreen backdrop, in my hawaiin shirt, with my new hairplug in, one eye on loomer, one eye on my childporn, talking about how I developed an app that lets white suburbanites call in hits on their brown neighbors. this is the future
The writers are
INEBRIATED.
The set is on
FIRE.
The sound system is
FUCKED.
The actors are
PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING
each other.
The crew is in open
REVOLT.
Adrien Brody has
10 SECONDS
to introduce Sean Paul
as the Rasta Man
or the network
is pulling the plug.