64. "it's not non-watching nerds, it's non-contextualizing" In response to In response to 57
which is obviously just as much a part of the message board as it is anything else, just saying that's why I nitpick, because the stats only interests me in context, not as standalone #s.
but I do understand what you're saying about the faith-based basketball viewers. I just don't mind them so much.
and seriously whether or not you have much interest in soccer, it might interest you to give Football Manager a look (it's actually the tool I used to *teach* myself soccer when I decided I wanted to learn, I went into it wholly blind). it's on Steam if you're on a PC, dunno about Macs. you are given a salary budget and a transfer budget and the game is in making valuation decisions on players to fill that out, hiring a coaching staff for style of play, assembling a team that has good chemistry, putting players in their best position to succeed etc. it seems stupid, but playing that game is part of what helps me understand Presti's perspective on the Harden trade for example, because sometimes you only have so many resources and you need to sacrifice to get by. anyway, it's a fun numbers-heavy game that has been around for over a decade now and is a big seller in the UK, always funny to me it remains such a fringe/cult thing even as #s keep growing in importance in the US.