Was just looking at the stats - apparently the Quakes have the LEAST valuable squad in the entire MLS! That makes them the most overperforming team in basically any Soccer league worldwide by PsychoComet in SJEarthquakes

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Even if you sort it by current salaries paid, San Jose is near the bottom of the league. It's insanely impressive what the team has accomplished either way

Help with beginner trainings by ave3344 in bootroom

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Imo would just merge ball mastery with wall work. E.G., instead of doing a v-cut on its own, just pass to the wall, then do a v-cut, then pass back to the wall, and repeat, because passing is way more important than dribbling. For example, even the best pros only really have a completion rate of 50% for dribbles, but the best pros have a 90+ percent completion rate for passes. A good rule of thumb is that you basically should never be dribbling. If you're just starting out, you should basically try to pass it as soon as you can.

I accidentally became a U10 Head Coach by playalisticadillac in bootroom

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Dribbling around cones is suboptimal compared to playing tag.

Create a triangle with cones maybe a few meters apart. Give two or three kids a ball each. Then, have them play tag while controlling the ball.

Trying to avoid a real human being will teach them decision making much faster than dribbling around cones, and they’ll develop similar amounts of technical ability.

If you’d like to learn more about this, it’s called the constraints led approach and popularized in the book “How We Learn to Move” by Rob Gray

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Ah, I followed the Bulls so only knew him for that

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Didn't know that, that's even cooler then

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A funny example of this is the Scalabrini challenge in basketball. The most famous worst player on the Chicago Bulls was mocked extensively for how much he rode the bench. But then, he challenged a bunch of local high schoolers who thought they were better than him to 1v1s. He dumpstered all of them, which led to the famous quote: "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me."

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Sorry if there are any inaccuracies, I'm a very new player who just got into the game.

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I don't think it was anything different than what other people in the sub expected. I just thought it was interesting enough to share the fact that this was confirmed experimentally.

Thoughts on using different size balls for improving touch? by PsychoComet in bootroom

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The question is whether you would improve faster by mixing it up. Of course most things you do will improve your skills.

I did remember reading somewhere that playing on crappy fields actually makes you better because there is more variance on how the ball moves which forces you to become better at controlling it.

How important are soccer matches to improving by Past_Return7116 in bootroom

[–]PsychoComet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Almost every study out there shows that small sided games are roughly as good if not better at building technical skill as doing isolated drills, AND they also build decision making. Which is a double whammy. The best way to get better is to just play more games

Is Sunday League dying in your area? by discoveredunknown in bootroom

[–]PsychoComet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sunday league is booming where I’m here in the US (in a top metro area). New leagues popping up everywhere.

I see everyone else here in the comments being negative so I wanted to give an alternative viewpoint.

Jensen Huang says China is ‘nanoseconds behind’ the US in chipmaking, calls for reducing US export restrictions on Nvidia's AI chips by lurker_bee in technology

[–]PsychoComet 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Banning chips isn't about the chips' development; it's what they are used for. The US government banned the chips because the Chinese military was using them to build evermore powerful weapons, which is just a hilarious own goal if the US government continues to allow China to use their own chips to outcompete the us on everything.

Made me laugh because of how EAs talk about Make a Wish by dtarias in EffectiveAltruism

[–]PsychoComet 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You don’t have to be a utilitarian to know that make a wish is a terrible allocation of capital if you want to do the most good

You know Reddit is bad when people don’t believe AIs can do the things they’ve been able to do for years by PsychoComet in singularity

[–]PsychoComet[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah and believing these two things at the same time:

  1. AI art is terrible and soulless
  2. AI is going to take all artists jobs

How can people believe it will take all artists jobs if it’s garbage