Sports are poorly designed in general. We keep blaming people -- who come in all forms -- for not fitting into a system that is designed to make 95% of them losers.https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1358667932704755717 …
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Don’t we have minor leagues, community teams, coworker teams, etc?
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That’s exactly what regular people who play sports do. Just like small business owners generally compete in local markets, not against Amazon
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In chess tournaments they do exactly this. Everyone gets a rating that goes up when you win and down when you lose, according to the rating of your opponent. There's always some movement, but the equilibrium state is to play people at your level
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Agreed and that's why categorization and classification is crucial Without it, there is no possibility of even having the contest
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They do. The people at the top compete with people who have similar ability. The pple at the bottom compete with pple who have similar ability. It sorts out itself.
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Exactly, sports are a sorting mechanism They sort for different things in different societies, but that's what they do
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For the comedic value.
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