Peter Keating
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
I want to say, I think there's something a little deeper going on that we should pay some respect to, which is that modern analytics have moved baseball away from base stealing, have moved football away from rushing, have moved basketball away from the inside game. A lot of people grew up where sports meant a lot more violence and physical contact and beat the hell out of the other guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
And over time, more information discovered other ways to defeat your opponents. There are people who just don't like that. People who don't like how thinking about these things and the kind of bruising competitions they're used to enjoying go together. But it's all just information. It all just makes it smarter. It all just makes it more fun. Oh, and you're right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
But I also, there's something a little more general to keep in mind that a way through this is to embrace the crazy, embrace the randomness. People want to ascribe events to reasons and character and moral turpitude. Sometimes shit just happens. I mean, yeah, we've been studying college basketball for 20 years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
The closest we've been able to get in explaining the variance and what happens in order is it's not anywhere close to 100%. So you can embrace the fact that crazy stuff happens, appreciate it, doesn't have to be sustainable. And it still should be really enjoyable when unexpected things happen, even if it's a little more predictable.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Well, the three point revolution. I mean, if that's that's kind of the paragon example of of how things have changed. Sure. But you got to remember, sports can also legislate against too much change. I mean, baseball just passed rules against the shift and instituted a, you know, for 150 years, baseball intellectuals were writing that the great timeless thing about baseball was there's no clock.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Well, they changed it and it kind of made things better, right? So, you know, if we can't all get together and decide if this is too much, you know, we don't have robot umpires yet. If we don't want robot umpires, nobody's going to force us to have robot umpires. We can all get together and decide this is too much change. Let's keep things a little more fun if we want to. Sports have done that too.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
I would love to see the unintended consequences. You know, when's the last time a baseball team actually succeeded when they tried to recruit a free agent because they said, oh, look... I'm going to ignore this video trickery. I just want everybody to know my hat's still pointing up. You know, often that doesn't work out, which just adds to the fun.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
Listen, I think if it's within certain bounds, you know, there are rules about how far the fences can be in baseball. You can't just do whatever you want. There's certain minimums and maximums. That could be really interesting.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: First Fake
And unless you really like bicycling and no, no Florida Panthers, because we decided because we are we do a lot of analytics work. We decided Connor McDavid wasn't overrated.