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Old 10-17-2007, 06:38 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by Russ View Post
I guess we could go in circles all day. I wasn't challenging you to give it a value. I meant that it's probably pretty difficult to put a value on something like that or to say that a team would've won X more or X less games with this player's leadership on the team.
It's indeed hard to put a value on that, considering it's a very vague idea.

Its value could be hidden in places like boosting 5 teammates' performance by 1% each. Nobody can really detect that considering 1% is much smaller than the random fluctuation one can expect out of any player. It'd be even harder to detect if we don't know what 5 teammates would have this boost.


However, if the total magnitude of this contribution is really significant, we should have been able to detect it.
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