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Old 09-09-2019, 07:05 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by CBeisbol View Post
This is akin to saying that you don't like "toaster cultists" because when they put a slice of bread in their toaster and toast comes out a couple of minutes later they say that their toaster works.


Someone upthread mentioned a "math wunderkid". Understanding correlation and slope-intercept equations (middle school level math) might make some a "math wunderkid" in comparison to others.
No it is not. Your statement is akin to tasting toast and then proclaiming that hot bread is essential to life. You may like toast and that is fine. But that doesn't mean a logical conclusion is people need to eat toast or die.

The sun rises every day. That is a fact. No one is changing that. Michael Jordan won 6 NBA titles. That is a fact. No one is coming up evidence that will contradict that statement. Gravity is a fact. No one is switching it off and stuff is going to go floating in the air.

WAR cannot be a fact if it changes from year to year and there is no consensus on how to come up with it. fangraps changes theirs. baseball-reference changes theirs. Bill James changes his. They have created theories. Estimations. NOT FACTS.
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