Re: Opta stats SL team of the season so far... : Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:52 am
vbfg wrote:
Huh. Thanks for the insight. Today I learned. 
All it takes is the right sponsor.
I can get every play in the NFL. Since game one, way back when. I can do thirty years of college football. Baseball has been an ever increasing cascade of statistics. There are decades of the NBA available. Soccer, the most state-less data free game there is, is dripping in them - every shot, and every location where it happened, etc. I can get all of this right now, legally, for free. It's not to the same quality every time, and sometimes the categories change over time. There are tons of it out there though.
But not RL. Because stats gathering organisations make money from rugby league.
They somehow fail to do that with the biggest sports in the world.
All it takes is the right sponsor.
I can get every play in the NFL. Since game one, way back when. I can do thirty years of college football. Baseball has been an ever increasing cascade of statistics. There are decades of the NBA available. Soccer, the most state-less data free game there is, is dripping in them - every shot, and every location where it happened, etc. I can get all of this right now, legally, for free. It's not to the same quality every time, and sometimes the categories change over time. There are tons of it out there though.
But not RL. Because stats gathering organisations make money from rugby league.
They somehow fail to do that with the biggest sports in the world.
Well, we could have a little side bet on the question of whether the statistics CLUBS (in any sport) have access to are the very same (and therefore of equal value) as those widely disseminated among fans via TV - but I think we both know how that would end up.
If you didn't know this already you should have. And if you did why make it sound like there's anything unusual about information finding its true market value? Either way getting all snotty about it isn't an edifying spectacle ...
