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- From: fujimoto@carson.u.washington.edu (Bryant Fujimoto)
- Subject: Re: TO THE GM's/IM's FROM DON
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.101921.26160@u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:19:21 GMT
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- dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec22.014644.18244@u.washington.edu>, fujimoto@carson.u.washington.edu (Bryant Fujimoto) writes:
- >> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <1992Dec21.105652.903@u.washington.edu>, fujimoto@carson.u.washington.edu (Bryant Fujimoto) writes:
- >>>> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>>I have little respect for 'critics' who lack the ability to climb to the top,
- >>>>>and it spills over....
- >>>>
- >> [stuff deleted]
- >>>>
- >>>Because what Benjie (and the others) did was the equivelent of
- >>>taking two missed passes thrown by the WINNING Superbowl quarterback, and using
- >>>them to 'prove' that the man is NOT as good as he was last year (which, by the
- >>>way, his team ALSO won).
- >>
- >> Consider a quarterback who had a good regular season - high precentage
- >> of completions, lots of yards passing, etc. His team gets to the
- >> Superbowl where he completes only 5 of 20 passes, has 3 intereceptions,
- >> no TDs, etc., *but*, his team wins, in part because the opposing
- >> team turns the ball over 8 times.
- etc.
-
- >Nice hypothetical. But, I doubt even Benjamin would compare Fischer's ability
- >to being as poor as the QB in this analogy.
-
- You don't seem to understand the point of the analogy, so I'll try again.
- You seem to be upset that the GMs have tried to compared Fischer's play in
- FS-II with his earlier play. However, as I have pointed out that this
- happens all the time in sports. Whether or not a sports writer is
- justified in saying a particular athlete is "over-the-hill", or whatever
- depends on the quality of the athlete's performance. So if you wish to
- claim that the GMs are not justified in saying Fischer is not playing as
- well as before, you have to dispute their assessments of his play.
- Something you have refused to do.
-
- (Sorry if this wasn't clear the first time.)
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >My opinion of non-players who critique? Not much, I suppose you do need an
- >outside source, as if you left it up to the coaches themselves, you would get
- >horribly biased reults based toa large extent on politics and personal likes
- >and dislikes.
-
- >(Much like the current slamming of Fischer by GMs.)
-
- >If it were someone who was beliveably neutral about Fischer, I would trust his
- >views MUCh more than Benjamin and the others.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >Besides, IF Benjamin had some big-picture analysis which rested on more than
- >comparing a few plays against the tournament of the 70s, he would have given
- >it.
-
- I think he would claim that the examples he gave were sufficient for the
- conclusions he drew. You obviously disagree, but then at this point we
- run into the question of whose analysis do you trust? In my case, as
- long as the annotater is willing give the analysis upon which his/her
- comments are based, then they are entitled to make their comments. The
- analysis may be right or wrong, but if they give it they are committed, and
- if their analysis is consistently wrong, or biased, their reputations
- will suffer. I tend to trust that in the end the desire to protect
- their reputations will lead to generally accurate analysis (whether the
- annotater is biased or not, and except for cases where the annotater is
- hiding opening secrets he/she doesn't wish to reveal).
-
- If we define slamming as unjustified criticism, then it seems that you
- have decided that the GMs are slamming Fischer, not because you can
- refute their analysis, but primarily because you do not trust their
- neutrality.
-
- As you might guess from what I have said, I don't agree, and given
- the nature of this argument I don't think we ever will.
-
- Sorry we can't be in more agreement.
-
- Bryant Fujimoto
- fujimoto@denali.chem.washington.edu
-
-