Keith Law Top 25 Impact Prospects for 2016

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I tried to clean up this thread to no avail. It's just a mess. Someone says something sarcastic, someone else responds defensively and soon everyone jumps in. There were some open-minded and reasonable thoughts here and there, but there is no where to go from here. So I'll leave you all with what Brock said a while back and maybe some of you can put your sarcasm and posturing back in the closet. It's a very, very long season and it hasn't even started yet. Some open-mindedness, a little give and take and a lot of ego checking would help. Thread closed.

 

Both of these points are valid and when juxtaposed together, reveal a lot about the nature of this board.

 

10% of this board is "Math is right!!!!!"

 

10% of this board is "Math is dumb!!!!"

 

80% of this board is "Math is useful. Now will you 20% STFU for five minutes?"

 

One of the biggest problems on this board - or any other internet forum - is that those two 10% groups try to lump the 80% into their extreme black-and-white analysis whenever it's convenient for them to do so (whether that is in alliance or opposition to their viewpoint depends on circumstance).

 

Not everything needs to be strictly categorized into one camp or the other. It's acceptable to find use in math-based analytics while pointing out that they're often used incorrectly and/or wrongly presented as fact (and vice versa).