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All Blacks final World Cup squad?
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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 743099" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>No, what I do is use statistics to back my perception of what happens. It's called supporting my beliefs with empirical evidence. Of course it isn't perfect - but when two people have two different views on a player it helps to support your view with something outside "my point of view is obviously right". In this context I have clearly used several things that would indicate an effective work rate - it's difficult to dispute that if player A is credited with more runs per game than player B - then player A runs more than player B.</p><p></p><p>I don't stare at a screen of rugby stats and form my opinions based on that - I use what I believe seems to be the case, and see if my beliefs are supported by the numbers. Of course it would be considerably easier for me to just say "no you're wrong" and not try and back it up, or back it up with isolated instances that I happen to recall - but it wouldn't do much to demonstrate my point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 743099, member: 38640"] No, what I do is use statistics to back my perception of what happens. It's called supporting my beliefs with empirical evidence. Of course it isn't perfect - but when two people have two different views on a player it helps to support your view with something outside "my point of view is obviously right". In this context I have clearly used several things that would indicate an effective work rate - it's difficult to dispute that if player A is credited with more runs per game than player B - then player A runs more than player B. I don't stare at a screen of rugby stats and form my opinions based on that - I use what I believe seems to be the case, and see if my beliefs are supported by the numbers. Of course it would be considerably easier for me to just say "no you're wrong" and not try and back it up, or back it up with isolated instances that I happen to recall - but it wouldn't do much to demonstrate my point. [/QUOTE]
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