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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
The very reason people develop statistical analyses is because they believe that traditional subjective rankings are inadequate. So to say they don't believe the results of their analyses is insane. Might one find isolated examples where the developers would agree that their model didn't yield the right result? It's possible, any model has limitations.
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James even called out in his ranking comment for Ryan that he gets this high only because James believed a starting basis of zero was the appropriate thing to use - and that if measured against league average instead that Ryan would suffer significantly in the rankings. The implication was that he was slotting Ryan about as high as he could justify possible, a bias
to him.
It's not hard to acknowledge that Perry and Rayn are pretty similar for career value but to argue that you would take Ryan. It does not require a long series of absolute lies and pretending using math (which is invalid unless you originally wrote the equation, as we have learned) is a problem lol. The Ryan fans could easily and reasonably pick their guy, but have steadfastly refused to even approach the realm of the reasonable or discernible reality.