Comments on: Fink Tank falls to the tyranny of numbers http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/ Football News Fri, 25 May 2012 18:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gabriele Marcotti’s top 50 footballers | Soccerlens - Football News Blog http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/#comment-50538 Gabriele Marcotti’s top 50 footballers | Soccerlens - Football News Blog Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:00:51 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/#comment-50538 [...] the Fink Tank list of the Premiership’s best players in 2006/2007, Gabriele Marcotti’s list of top 50 [...] [...] the Fink Tank list of the Premiership’s best players in 2006/2007, Gabriele Marcotti’s list of top 50 [...]

]]> By: longshot http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/#comment-48429 longshot Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:35:22 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/#comment-48429 Ah okay :) Thanks a lot! Ah okay :) Thanks a lot!

]]> By: Ahmed Bilal http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/#comment-48419 Ahmed Bilal Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:36:59 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/#comment-48419 longshot - already read your draft, liked it, will go up tomorrow or day after depending on how many other items it'll be competing with tomm. Yes, you have to save your pieces as drafts - after that I proof-read, edit, and publish. longshot – already read your draft, liked it, will go up tomorrow or day after depending on how many other items it’ll be competing with tomm.

Yes, you have to save your pieces as drafts – after that I proof-read, edit, and publish.

]]> By: longshot http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/#comment-48418 longshot Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:30:28 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/fink-tank-falls-to-the-tyranny-of-numbers/1990/#comment-48418 Football players are ridiculously hard to judge according to their statistics due to the team nature of the sport. Everything a player accomplishes is influenced by those he plays with. Using these statistics through a formula to derive how effective a player is inherently flawed since there is no empirical measure of how good a player is. One other thing: I've written a column for soccer lens, but can't seem to publish it. It's perpetually stuck in "Draft" mode. Is this normal Ahmed? Football players are ridiculously hard to judge according to their statistics due to the team nature of the sport. Everything a player accomplishes is influenced by those he plays with. Using these statistics through a formula to derive how effective a player is inherently flawed since there is no empirical measure of how good a player is.

One other thing: I’ve written a column for soccer lens, but can’t seem to publish it. It’s perpetually stuck in “Draft” mode. Is this normal Ahmed?

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