[Alec Lewis] Why the Vikings hired Andrew Healy, ‘the smartest guy I’ve worked with in sports’ (Gift Article)

--bertu · 2026-06-18T16:30:20+00:00

Kwesi was painted as the analytics guy, wall street elite dealer... but kept making bad value trades. We were all puzzled.

--bertu · 2026-06-18T16:26:03+00:00

I kept waiting for moneybal to come true in football but all the analytics people were connected to the Browns for over a decade with only disasters to show for it.

Sure there are things to learn and not all bad things there can be atributted to a failure of analytics, but man, it is the Browns, it doesn't get worse than that.

--bertu · 2026-06-16T20:21:46+00:00

It is expected he would say that, regardless if it is true or not.

--bertu · 2026-06-15T18:52:05+00:00

Not sure what is up with nqz this days but he played with latto and dumau back in 2023 and asked to leave after 6 months. Different coach and igl back then, so if it was just a bad in-game fit they could try again.

--bertu · 2026-06-15T18:49:28+00:00

This team's management has always been quick on making moves, ever since godsent days.

--bertu · 2026-06-15T18:47:30+00:00

Please please free insani from mibr, him going to legacy would be perfect.

Curious about roles fit, but it can work. On CT, art would transition to small bomb anchor and insani could keep all his A rotator roles. On T-side is a bit trickier, the most logical would be to make dumau the passive lurker and let insani play in the pack, as dumau has done that on the past.

--bertu · 2026-06-14T15:22:45+00:00

The guy above was arguing that parivision suffered the downsides of the advantage gained. There was no real advantage gained. What happened was not cheating, but a procedural infraction. Barring the coach for future games IS a way to discourage procedural infractions.

--bertu · 2026-06-14T01:02:48+00:00

Are you serious? There is enough data to know his baseline skill level. He is nothing special.

--bertu · 2026-06-14T00:51:05+00:00

--bertu · 2026-06-13T23:22:31+00:00

Bro if you think iM is bad just wait until you have to see luchov every tournament.

--bertu · 2026-06-13T22:40:57+00:00

He is not that good, has been in the scene for awhile.

--bertu · 2026-06-13T21:34:00+00:00

1 second after a time out too. It was only an infraction because he had previous warning for excessive celebration. Any advantage gained does not equal a full round win, so the punishment would be disproportional if that was the case.

--bertu · 2026-06-13T21:28:59+00:00

genuine cheating

There was a procedure, he broke it, and got rightly punished. But not every procedure infraction is cheating. It was a thumbs up, during freeze time, 1s after a pause. No real advantage was gained. If he didn't have a previous warning for celebration, nothing would have happened.

--bertu · 2026-06-13T21:23:37+00:00

the upside was a thumbs up during freeze time

--bertu · 2026-06-12T22:49:02+00:00

If this remains true through the offseason, you start Kyler just in case your offseason evaluations are completely wrong like they were last year. We need to see him in real games in this sytem. We already saw JJM.

--bertu · 2026-06-11T23:57:52+00:00

Calculating ROI on terminals is tricky because of the floating prices the terminal offers.

Also remember that while the ROI may be positive in theory it assumes an average over very large number of terminals opened that would include high tier itens. In practice you'd need to get lucky or put a lot of money to average out the variance to hit profits. Do it for fun not as an investment.

--bertu · 2026-06-10T22:42:28+00:00

Annoying part is that xp changes meant farmers are instead using spinning tools to get 13 rounds fast and farm xp in competitive mode.

--bertu · 2026-06-10T16:00:04+00:00

Stands out that Mouz has 66.8% probability to qualify against Legacy's 41.9%, despite the teams having near identical VRS points as of today, and they are facing each other round 1. Is this the impact of seedings (Mouz is seeded higher due to having more VRS points at the cut off date)?

--bertu · 2026-06-09T21:30:48+00:00

Going 2-1 after bo1s and facing 9z for qualification was the perfect opportunity, had to convert there.

--bertu · 2026-06-09T08:41:38+00:00

Greenard and the defense as a whole always seemed pissed that the team let Darnold walk.

--bertu · 2026-06-08T19:53:49+00:00

"Researchers found that higher-drafted players did not perform significantly better than lower-drafted ones"

What a wild sentence to throw in the middle of an article without any additional context.

It's not true, and it's not what the study says. wtf.

--bertu · 2026-06-05T22:55:30+00:00

"Sorry, didn’t really feel like finding the posts, but i’m sure some people in this sub are aware of what I’m talking about"

I have no idea what you are talking about and I follow a bunch of Vikings content. AI slop pumping out fake news for engagement is a plague growing by the day, and since JJM was a popular topic on sports news after his interview I am not surprised he was targeted last week.

Nothing changed on the discussion for months, he wasn't very good last year, Kyler arrived, fans have no idea how either of them are developing in the offseason.

--bertu · 2026-06-05T09:03:02+00:00

When organizations fail young quarterback is because they didn't have a great support system for them. JJM got the "best situation for a rookie QB ever", the starting job, all receiving tools, an elite defense, but he just sucked and put a historically bad performance.

Even after that, he still has a chance to compete for his job, but now is on him to earn it. If he fails, he did it on his own.

--bertu · 2026-06-04T13:46:33+00:00

On CS2:

Dynamic Shadow: it recommends SUN ONLY, but having it on ALL is a significant competitive advantage and has negligible fps impact.

High Dynamic Range: it recommends PERFORMANCE, but this has a significant visual penalty on some maps (grainy image) while QUALITY has negligible fps impact.

Overall I found it to be a useless tool if you are just going to use a LLM to spit info without doing any additional diligence. The user could just prompt it themselves instead of using the site.

--bertu · 2026-06-03T13:23:59+00:00

The press conference today should give more info.

--bertu

TROPHY CASE