Having waded through a flood of What Went Wrong With The
Yankees stories over the past week, I have three observations:
- stories about how “the Yankees got old” are amusing to
begin with, but especially when written by sportswriters in their seventies;
- sports “analysis” is even more of a pure Rorschach Test
than political reporting;
- it's amazing how much time and attention one can waste analyzing things that are beyond analysis.
The one story I haven’t
read is how utterly useless statistical analysis is when you forget the
psychological elements of success. Or to put it another way: I wonder how much
of a role panic on behalf of management played in the team’s demise.
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