This isn't "tournament poker players" as a species, it's just the dummies and the charlatans. I find it useful as a way to recognize them for what they are.https://twitter.com/Joeingram1/status/1163249436861980672 …
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I don't think he's a charlatan. I do think it's a dumb metric. But I feel the same way about GPI, bracelets, etc. It's weird how much otherwise smart people swallow the Kool-Aid on that stuff.
I think a lot of people are motivated by scoreboard-type stuff. Doesn't bother me, though I agree it's heavily correlated with being a charlatan etc. But I'm also a romantic about e.g. a baseball player getting 2,000 hits or whatever.
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I think we can partially blame sabermetrics for this. Before 1980, you could agrue Mays.v.Cobb.v.Ruth. Now we just put it in our favorite formula and we 'know' the answer. Some of the same is at work here, too.
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I have a lot of thoughts about this. Broadly I'm sympathetic, but I'm not sure how much the saber movement is the cause and how much it's an effect of something deeper. cc
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