[[{“value”:”Most strategic improvements in sports have been in the direction of increasing variance and living with the (better EV) results: Baseball: more extra base hits, no more bunting. Football: more passing game, going for it on 4th. Golf: driver ball speed increases. Bball: 3 pointer… Tennis: bigger serves/groundstrokes. Snooker: cannoning the pack to extend breaks.
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Most strategic improvements in sports have been in the direction of increasing variance and living with the (better EV) results:
Baseball: more extra base hits, no more bunting.
Football: more passing game, going for it on 4th.
Golf: driver ball speed increases.
Bball: 3 pointer…
Tennis: bigger serves/groundstrokes.
Snooker: cannoning the pack to extend breaks.
Chess: sub-optimal but niche exploitive lines.
That is from Agustin Lebron. Maybe a lot of the NBA improvements are simply insisting on better defense and fundamentals? And matching player defensive assignments, or five-man rotations, to more closely align with data on historical success?
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