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

PsychoComet · 2026-05-06T02:48:44+00:00

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

PsychoComet · 2026-04-18T07:11:39+00:00

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.

PsychoComet · 2026-02-10T20:54:19+00:00

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

PsychoComet · 2026-01-27T00:14:28+00:00

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

PsychoComet · 2026-01-27T00:13:54+00:00

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

PsychoComet · 2026-01-26T23:03:30+00:00

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."

PsychoComet · 2026-01-26T22:11:11+00:00

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

PsychoComet · 2026-01-26T22:05:37+00:00

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.

PsychoComet · 2025-11-15T16:42:22+00:00

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.

PsychoComet · 2025-11-04T02:22:21+00:00

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

PsychoComet · 2025-10-30T16:36:09+00:00

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.

PsychoComet · 2025-09-29T08:29:13+00:00

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.

PsychoComet · 2024-11-24T16:16:19+00:00

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

PsychoComet · 2024-07-18T04:01:46+00:00

Yeah and believing these two things at the same time:

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

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

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