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Frankly i am amazed you think that has anything to do with racism. Can you explain why you find that racist?Post the quote jackass. Oh you can't.The OP and his ilk jump at any chance to create racial division.The OP was retarded to think this was racist. I think their feelings are hurt no one is impressed with them citing stats.Only in the right wing echo chamber of retarded nutjobs does Wilbon say analytics is racist.
For those of you who aren't rubes, guzzling down whatever partisan nonsense you hear, here is the actual article:
Mission Impossible: African-Americans & analytics
You are a liar and a pathetic hack. He claims analytics are racist you unreal ignorant moron.
You are a freaking loser.
The mission was to find black folks who spend anytime talking about advanced analytics, whose conversations are framed by — or even casually include references to — win shares or effective shooting percentage, WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) or points per 100 possessions. It’s a failed mission so far. Totally empty. Conclusion: Advanced analytics and black folks hardly ever mix. Set aside the tiny handful of black men who make a living somewhere in the sports industry dealing directly with the numbers and there is absolutely zero mingling.
But not in “BlackWorld,” where never is heard an advanced analytical word. Not in urban barbershops. Not in text chains during three-hour games. Not around office water coolers. Not even in pressrooms or locker rooms where black folks who make a living in the industry spend all day and half the night talking about the most intimate details of sports.
My friend Larry Irving, a black Stanford lawyer and the most rational person I know — except when it comes to his New York Knicks fandom — said our complete withdrawal from statistical analysis is based on our emotional tie to the game.
“Sports is emotional. And analytics represent the absence of emotion, the antithesis. Nobody gets into sports to be dispassionate. And it just seems to me we are the feel it, smell it, touch it people,” he said. “WHIP and WAR [wins above replacement] and win shares are completely antiseptic. I mean, the coach may use analytics to confirm, but you mean to tell me Knute Rockne couldn’t tell whether the boy could play without some advanced analytics expert telling him?”
Mission Impossible: African-Americans & analytics
Oldschool, you are an absolute moron.
Quote from Stephen A (loud screamer) Smith
"You don’t hear brothers talkin’ about analytics. The eye test, knowledge of the game of basketball, dissecting who can do what, etc., all comes into play. We also monitor who has the leadership capabilities, we definitely monitor what’s inside your chest, your heart, how competitive are you, how feisty are you, are you ready to be a roughrider, or are you gonna wilt beneath the pressure. That’s how WE as African-Americans, talk about the sport."