We have probably underestimated how much of current problems can be traced to Moneyball (2003/2011 film) fed the cult of Optimization
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Now baseball is played close to optimally but people might find it boring - which means in the past individual teams were sacrificing for the overall good of the game without realizing it.
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Thinking this watching Pride fights yesterday. Japanese fighters prized aesthetics and tradition over effectiveness Not that they weren’t trying to win, but they wouldn’t stoop to the win-at-all-costs American wrestling mentality Then they never did well in UFC
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