Nick Maxwell Site

[Old Spice]

Check out Nick Maxwell's new site and a touch of blogging on there from some native Bigfooty talent.

http://www.nickmaxwell.com.au/?p=124

Give it some love.

 

[TradeDraft]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Quite a Good Site. Even promotes the Camp that we got Bolton from

 

[Old Spice]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Quite a Good Site. Even promotes the Camp that we got Bolton from

You'd hope so Davey boy, given Nicky boy helped establish the thing.

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Hot-damn! And let's bring on the Dream Team #winning

 

[vjknight]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

how many of our lads have a website of such diversity ?

the BF posters will go to town ala harry when news of this site breaks.

 

[Old Spice]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Hot-damn! And let's bring on the Dream Team #winning

Speaking of which, I notice a certain dainty horse has made his way onto your DT name.

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Speaking of which, I notice a certain dainty horse has made his way onto your DT name.

Made his way? [strike]Neigh[/strike] Nay, demanded it!

Not unlike our good friend Paul the octopus, Smally esq has a certain talent for picking winners. You count the lucern rum balls as they pop out and you get the average DT points per week. Sadly, though, the results can be skewed if he's had one too many sugar lumps.

 

[Old Spice]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Made his way? [strike]Neigh[/strike] Nay, demanded it!

Not unlike our good friend Paul the octopus, Smally esq has a certain talent for picking winners. You count the lucern rum balls as they pop out and you get the average DT points per week. Sadly, though, the results can be skewed if he's had one too many sugar lumps.

Reading a Smally soilent green is no easy task. Have to do a PhD in hay reconstitution.

 

[Mars II]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Quite a Good Site. Even promotes the Camp that we got Bolton from

I think it was rather poorly designed.

 

[mdc]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Check out Nick Maxwell's new site and a touch of blogging on there from some native Bigfooty talent.

http://www.nickmaxwell.com.au/?p=124

Give it some love.

Dearest Sock de Ferrous,

What am I to make of this meandering tract on bean-bags and harness racing?

I clicked hoping to be informed of the multifarious possible permutations of Port-Collingwood match-ups. The possibilities are limitless: Forwards to Backs, Backs to Forwards, Midfield to Midfield, Backs to Forwards. And so on.

At the very least you could have let the readers know that Tarrant is returning to Collingwood after a stint at Fremantle, that Krakouertoa will slot in divinely (said the actress to the bishop) and that the Pies are going to be the hunted this year, and will also be wary of a hangover.

You are a disgrace to football writing, you deviant scribbler, you.

 

[Thommo 42]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

you upset Nick didn't pick you mate?

He said he didn't just want Collingwood centric articles

 

[absy]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

I think it was rather poorly designed.

Hardly. At least it isn't some try-hard flash website

 

[Old Spice]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Dearest Sock de Ferrous,

What am I to make of this meandering tract on bean-bags and harness racing?

I clicked hoping to be informed of the multifarious possible permutations of Port-Collingwood match-ups. The possibilities are limitless: Forwards to Backs, Backs to Forwards, Midfield to Midfield, Backs to Forwards. And so on.

At the very least you could have let the readers know that Tarrant is returning to Collingwood after a stint at Fremantle, that Krakouertoa will slot in divinely (said the actress to the bishop) and that the Pies are going to be the hunted this year, and will also be wary of a hangover.

You are a disgrace to football writing, you deviant scribbler, you.

Mea and the Sherriff a-leave alla the banal banter toa youa scum, eh.

 

[mdc]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Mea and the Sherriff a-leave alla the banal banter toa youa scum, eh.

Obliged.

You gots free reign over what you post or are these screened?

 

[Old Spice]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

Obliged.

You gots free reign over what you post or are these screened?

Not exactly, but I was allowed to get some pointed barbs in about Carlton. I haven't tested the waters yet with hay puddings.

 

[Quicky]

Re: Nick Maxwell site launched

And speaking of changes, we have construction workers in high visibility vests sitting on the benches this year, the AFL call them substitutes, but that’s for another rant.

Favourite line!! Looking forward to that blog.

 

[Old Spice]

Some very fine work here by The Ferric Foot-covering.

http://www.nickmaxwell.com.au/?page_id=16

 

[Zahki]

Wow very nice article, shows how well we've done getting games into players over the last 5 years. Even though it's a young group, it's an experienced group and I think that experience is key to success. I hope we have another draft like 2006, what a ripper that one was.

 

[beez]

Nice little article that, certainly some food for thought.

 

[Pie eyed]

Site needs and upload facility so we can upload some wallpapers etc.

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

Site needs and upload facility so we can upload some wallpapers etc.

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

Excuse the shameless self-promotion, but if anyone else has the hump with statistics these days, see if this rings true:-

http://www.nickmaxwell.com.au/?p=350

 

[mdc]

Excuse the shameless self-promotion, but if anyone else has the hump with statistics these days, see if this rings true:-

http://www.nickmaxwell.com.au/?p=350

True enough, with reservations.

At the heart of the thing is something you've nailed in your piece: we're being peddled "stats" by mathematical nincompoops. This guarantees that the viewer;
a) has no idea which "stats" are important or interesting, because the commentators themselves have no idea.
b) has no idea why "stats" are useful in the first place.

I put "stats" in quotation marks because I think it's important to differentiate the idea of statistics from their current presentation. In theory, statistics should augment what we can see with our eyes - after all, none of us would be arrogant enough to assume that we can accurately render (and thus understand) in our minds the chaotic action of 36 men on a 160m x 110m field.

Now, I think you're right in saying that right now "stats" do more to confuse than to augment. And so, leaving them off altogether might well be an improvement. But bliss? Nay.

As an example, here's one simple instance where statistics would be useful. Say Travis de Cloke is lining up from 52m out on a slight angle. This is inevitably followed by the following:
- You'd probably prefer him from here than from 25 out, wouldn't you, Tom ?
- You're right Bruce, he kicks through the ball at this distance...

...and so on. Yet a simple look at the historical data (i.e. those infernal stats!) would out that line of thought for what it is - pure codswallop. Plenty other examples where that came from, too. But yet, few are actually utilised.

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

...As an example, here's one simple instance where statistics would be useful. Say Travis de Cloke is lining up from 52m out on a slight angle. This is inevitably followed by the following:
- You'd probably prefer him from here than from 25 out, wouldn't you, Tom ?
- You're right Bruce, he kicks through the ball at this distance...

...and so on. Yet a simple look at the historical data (i.e. those infernal stats!) would out that line of thought for what it is - pure codswallop. Plenty other examples where that came from, too. But yet, few are actually utilised.

Good point indeed. I was leaning toward hyperbole as it makes for a less balanced article

But your hypothetical here is a good one. To continue the conversation, someone just needs to say "Well, his record isn't so bad inside the arc, he's managed to be just better than 50/50" or words to that effect. Rather than the drone-like regurgitation of numbers that usually happens.

 

[Old Spice]

And for those who like Father Bob Maguire and remember the Holy Pies, testify!

http://www.nickmaxwell.com.au/?p=354#comments