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Originally Posted by Red
OMG, the LA comment wasn't meant to be taken so literally, it was a jab at how bad stats can be at predicting future results.
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Maybe, but by taking it literally, those posters showed the weakness of your case:
Nothing is particularly good at predicting the result of any particular game or even a short series. Even the worst teams win about 30 percent of the time. Even the best teams lose about 30 percent of the time. It's no good getting in a big snit about how team X should have beaten team Y on night Z, and therefore trade the culprit/fire the coach/blow the team up and start over.
(I'm not saying you're in a big snit. I'm saying I've seen many such snits in PGTs after losses, especially this year. If it were all said in conversation, I could chalk it up to blowing off steam, but when people put that stuff in writing they can have a tendency to stick to their most extreme opinions and get defensive rather than cool off and change their minds.
Verba volant, scripta manent.)