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xkcd #3262: Sports Commentary

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The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

This kind of data recognition is wasted on sports. I'd kill to have a commentary recognizing a player's top deck:whiff ratio during a mid game dig in commander. I don't care about optimized turns to win, I wanna see storm/cascade failure rate and scoop on sight %.