“The one group that we don't want using this
vacation time too creatively is the statisticians. Stats guys have
single-handedly wrecked baseball with their ‘launch angles’ and ‘exit velocity’
and gobbledygook like ‘Wins Above Replacement.’ My great fear is that while
football, basketball and hockey are in lockdown, statisticians will spend their
days developing statistical categories rivaling baseball's maddening facts and
figures. Things like ‘puck vortex’ and ‘carom variance.’”—Joe
Queenan, “Can the Lockdown Improve Our Sports?”, The Wall Street Journal, May 9-10, 2020
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