you made me feel old
and i'm still pretty young
but i will say though that anything different than we've done in the past cant yield much worse results than we've had in the past decade.
we've kept the guys who we though would be good, and have traded away pretty much every guy we thought wouldnt pan out.
Well what we did was more based on money than talent. But every Suns fan know the legend of $arver.
Most 1st round picks in the 2000-2007 or so timeframe, fewest actually drafted for the decade.
The good talent evaluators don't need this analytic crap, yet it's not completely worthless. Just almost. But when such things are introduced, they tend to become the 'reason' something happens. Especially over time.
Imagine if we picked political candidates this way, we wouldn't even need to go vote, the decision could be made for us based on what political party you were, how true they are to it, and how many billionaires are funding their campaign. Add up the potential voters with a statistical model based on how many would vote and tally it up.
Rules change, players style change, height and weight change. Who keeps the fake variables in tune? (hint: it's untunable) So you really have a metric that is not consistent. Not everything will be included, so on and so forth.
There will always be bad picks, freak injuries, etc. But basing it on a human mind will give you a real answer rather than a checklist with attributable points or whatnot that does not.
I hate to use a percentage to describe it, but such analytics should be given a 1 percent weighting type thing. Basically nothing, but still there just in case something pops up.
We can choose to believe it and it will either work or not. Not because you picked who it said to pick, but just by happenstance. It is grounded in real people, so no matter what, however it is set up, some people will work out and some don't.
It doesn't really tell you anything you can't figure out on your own.
Now it might bring up something you hadn't thought of, but other than that it is basically useless.
It's like me saying that my goal is to win the lottery and I put some pieces of paper on the ground and get my dog to lick them. Whatever first 6 numbers I take off his tongue is going to be the winner.
Then someone comes to you and tells is their plan to really turn their life around.
I'd be like WTF.
But basically the Suns are admitting it. The only thing we don't know is HOW much they've jumped the shark on this one. Just a little, or all the way. Also, where it starts now is one place, what about a few years from now? At some point the people that take over for those that put this in place, will forget how to use this analytic nothing, and make their decisions (with no insight why) based on these useless metrics. Why? Because that's what they were taught. It gives you supposedly the answer. Don't know how, why, or anything else. Just this is the way they were taught to find the answer.
Any of these crackpot examples of doing things I laid out is equal to the science of these analytics.
I've basically described so much in rl that goes on in gov'ts, corporations, education, so on and so forth. Now we get the Suns lauding their new technique. More like useless plan.
I'll applaud them for TRYING, but then again how much would you applaud a guy for initiative about their headache if their plan to get rid of it by using a hammer to their head?
Only a human being can judge something. Nothing else is actually capable of it. But decisions are outsourced to this crap, and if the Suns haven't completely outsourced decisions based on this crap, there is a real risk of it happening over time, just like it does pretty much everywhere else.
It just baffles me how the processes of our world have degenerated into idiocy like this, where it is failing every chance it can, and yet the reliance on it just keeps growing...and they laud it as a step forward. Or even laud it as a valid alternative. Give it a chance, fair and balanced. Well no, there aren't always two valid sides. This is one of those times. Only human beings can judge talent.
Another way to look at it is this is the sort of crap that creates the conditions for Idiocracy. Because it's got what plants crave, yeah the analytic process has got electrolytes. But analytics got electrolytes. Do you even know what electrolytes are? It's what analytics says we should do...so on and so forth. We're already there.
But onto the other thing yeah it made me feel pretty old, I was only a freshman in hs that year.
