Played it a few times when I was little, but its never been my thing
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Played it a few times when I was little, but its never been my thing
Football scoreboard:
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Cricket scorecard:
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Nerd sport? The answer is obvious.
The sport for nerds is the League of Legends League Championship Series.
Baseball is my second sport after English football. My Dad's family were American and from Connecticut and were huge Yankee fans. Me and my Dad used to watch the Yankee games when they were on here in the UK... at smurfing midnight. I fell in love with it though. I love all the stats that they churn out. Well, most of them. Crap like VORP and even Whiff are a bit daft if you ask me.
You see, I read this as the batter didn't want to know. As in, when the pitcher isn't throwing strikes so the batter doesn't swing and lets it go for a ball. Psychotic, you need to confirm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephex
I stared at this sentence for a bit and finally figured out you were referring to the pitcher refusing the catcher's hand signals and ended up laughing my ass off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
Cricket and baseball do actually share a lot of similarities. Baseball has the edge though as it doesn't last for 5 days and SOMEBODY SMURFING WINS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
Not all cricket lasts five days. There are matches that are played over a five days, four days, one day and even just something like 2-3 hours. All are entertaining in different ways. And when it comes to statistics, I'm not 100% certain but I'm still pretty sure that cricket wins out there, especially as cricket is recorded as the second most popular sport in the world, which means more players, which means even more statistics. :mwahaha:
So yeah, cricket is my statty sport, not football. If they invented a cricket manager game as good as Football Manager, you can bet your butt I'd be playing it.
They won't, though. :(
I thought this thread was going to be about curling.
ANOTHER FANTASTIC SPORT :hyper: I miss the Winter Olympics so muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
Well, you know, the angles and calculation and all that. Seems more nerdy than stats tbh!Quote:
Originally Posted by PikeANOTHER FANTASTIC SPORT :hyper: I miss the Winter Olympics so muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
To be fair, pretty much all sports have angles and calculation scattered throughout. Not too many have such an emphasis on friction, but cricket has seam and spin bowling which relies completely on such things.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShortyWell, you know, the angles and calculation and all that. Seems more nerdy than stats tbh!Quote:
Originally Posted by PikeANOTHER FANTASTIC SPORT :hyper: I miss the Winter Olympics so muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
Baseball is a statistician's dream. There is a stat for everything. Every time a player comes up to bat to a pitcher, we know the probability he will get a hit or a walk or a strikeout, hit it in the air or on the ground, which direction he will hit it in, how many bases he may get... The great thing is that all this data now goes into actual recruitment of players and it's not just for nerds. Guys get paid millions for having a good BABIP.
Baseball is not as exciting as football or basketball. It is not nonstop action. There are down times. Hell, there will be at least 17 stoppages of play in every game. And sometimes nothing happens (but that's still interesting since a 'pitcher's duel' means a close game where one play could win it). It's also a long season and not every game matters as much as it does in football or in tournaments like the World Cup or March Madness. But that's the beauty of the sport. The long season means the stats are actually statistically significant and can be used to make projections. And generally, fluke teams don't win.
Baseball is all about the duel between the pitcher and the batter. Only in boxing is there a more strategic pairing of two athletes. It's about anticipation. The batter needs to anticipate which pitch he is going to get and where he's going to hit it. The pitcher needs to fool the batter into thinking a good pitch is not worth swinging at or a bad pitch is. It's so cerebral, and that is hard to get across on TV, but it is the bread and butter of baseball.
Baseball is my favorite sport. Go A's!
I did some impressive curling this morning. I think that's due to having to much for dinner last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
I enjoyed playing it when I was a kid, but it was never really something I cared to follow. Guess I'm not a nerd.
Baseball is fun live, but completely dire to watch on television unless it's the Red Sox vs. The Yankees.
That's because it always kicks off!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
I've managed to watch the Yankees a few times but never managed to catch them against the Red Sox.
It's just not my thing. I actually find golf more entertaining to watch, and well, it's still golf.
Car racing boils down to who crosses the line first/goes the fastest, but the strategies and gathered statistics/data used in car set up/car building and during the race are astronomically large. There's a lot more there than some people realize. I'm sure it applies the same to all types of sports.