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Originally Posted by belsarius
I did not cherry pick anything. I used the exact same data set you did but looked at it from a different angle. I am not changing the set by looking at the whole team, or the top 5 instead of the top 10 or anything. The only person cherry picking is you, I made very sure not to change anything about the data.
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Eh.
Let's start with this: you can't say that "the distribution is different" and claim that it means that the team is younger. The latter point does not follow from the first. It's like saying that because I painted my car red it's now a firetruck. "The distribution is different" only means that the distribution is different.
Whether or not it's true that 29-30 are close to the most productive years is also a non-factor, when we are trying to establish whether or not we are any younger.
Yes, I do admit that we have gotten rid of some of the oldest players, but the bottom line remains the same; we are not generally speaking notably younger as a whole, because we have also reached a point where essentially our whole roster is at or past it's prime.
Which should be the most telling point about how this is really the last point at which you should start unloading these guys. And really it should have started earlier.