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Old 03-09-2015, 02:28 PM   #838
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Incidentally, I think we are often arguing about subjective descriptors while using objective data. It's both true to say LA is a better team than Montreal and to say that Montreal is a better team than LA. It's an intellectually fruitless argument
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I see that these data and their interpretations can be useful for explaining why certain teams are or are not successful, but they clearly do not work universally to such an extent that they clearly demonstrate which teams are better than others, whatever that means.
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