Mirrorball is Moneyball in reverse.
Sporting decision makers made better decisions after they got religion and let themselves learn from analytical models of their games, models often born far afield and given new life by blogosphere passion projects.
According to your correspondent, sport actually is the most important of the least important things because it’s itself a model of “real life”. We can have all sorts of fun picking apart its rigour and its glorious randomness. Its competitions and complex collaborations. Its regulations and unwritten rules. Its ingenious and idiotic strategies. And while we’re at it, we can increase our chances of improving the outcomes that matter most.
Come for a swift half or two in the clubhouse, stay after hours for yarns about how, if you look at it right, sport really is a matter of life and death.
And the dancing. Stay for the dancing.
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A decade ago (somehow), Wardell Stephen Curry II, aka Steph, Chef, or the Baby-faced Assassin, was making and shaping history. Unbound by unwritten rules of engagement, carefree and without conscience, he had learned there was nothing and nobody who could stop him raining long-range bombs on shell-shocked opponents. Bang! Bang!
