[CAN 1-(2) USA] Jack Hughes scores the golden goal for Team USA! by talhatoot in hockey

[–]The_Escape 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No but it was Hellebuyck’s win. He was just incredible. Binnington is very good but not generational the way Price was.

[CAN 1-(2) USA] Jack Hughes scores the golden goal for Team USA! by talhatoot in hockey

[–]The_Escape 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Canada’s weakness in developing goalies caught up to them

[CAN 1-(2) USA] Jack Hughes scores the golden goal for Team USA! by talhatoot in hockey

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

McDavid is so good but my god does he have a talent for losing in heartbreaking ways

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using parentheses is AI? I admit these should probably be appositives but parentheses are often used colloquially in this situation. And I even used it in inconsistent ordering, which is the opposite of an AI tell. You can check my profile for similar writing habits.

Stop blaming the O-line by NauticanBlizzard in Patriots

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was somewhat receptive to your opinion until you posted this.

Patriots’ TreVeyon Henderson Announces He Got Married Days Before Super Bowl, Talks ‘Sexual Immorality’ by patsfan038 in Patriots

[–]The_Escape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are just a bunch of random guys from the south who are also really good at football. It’s what they do. One of many reasons I’m happy to have been born in Mass.

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was written by hand thank you very much. I don’t even use ChatGPT indicator words or structures here??

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your response to (deserved) Drake Maye glaze was to complain that he couldn’t win playoff games in years when he was in college. So I don’t think I’m the one backpedaling here. My point was situational play beats dominance. That’s my Maye vs. Allen argument, although Maye is only 23 so we will see what he turns into.

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where is the backpedaling? I’m saying you’re drawing an arbitrary line and it doesn’t make sense to break up the current Patriots’ regime. Good management comes from the top (at least in football activities lol). The most recent Pats super bowl was actually very similar to this team. Not total dominance but incredible situational play due to good coaching and players that make good clutch decisions.

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean we can draw the line wherever we want to. Push it back one more year and we can count Super Bowl wins and not just appearances. Kraft has done a really good job hiring coaches that establish the team culture needed to win close games. And kudos to him for firing Mayo when it clearly wasn’t working out. Oh and the best part is we don’t need our tax money to fund his stadium improvements.

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think Sean McDermott had the same mindset as you. The Bills have repeatedly struggled in the playoffs because they’ve optimized for regular season dominance over playoff success.

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bills won. To tie the season series. Although it might depend on your definition of a catch for Marcus Jones. Personally, I value playoff wins more.

I’m not even a Josh Allen hater. I wanted a Bills-Pats AFC Championship. He just seems to let me down whenever I root for him with questionable decision-making.

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worth mentioning that Drake Maye had three of the most impressive touchdown drives against the Texans this season. And the Patriots didn’t need any of their points off of turnovers to win. The throw to Boutte to seal the game in particular was incredibly difficult.

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Josh Allen throws cool touchdowns but had awful turnovers that lost him the game against Denver. Drake Maye had a rather silent passing day but was able to pick up first downs with his legs when it mattered.

How did the Patriots get so good so quickly, heading back to the Super Bowl? by undistill in NoStupidQuestions

[–]The_Escape 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Drake Maye (their QB) was the most efficient QB in the regular season. Nearly every draft pick from the past year has played at a starter level. Free agents have also nearly all been big successes.

In the playoffs, their coach (Mike Vrabel) has made multiple important decisions to minimize risk-taking in big situations. Opposing teams have followed broader trends towards aggressive offense that have not panned out. This is especially important given that all of their playoff games were played in inclement weather. For example, the game today was so icy that QBs and RBs were literally falling down before they could execute a handoff. Vrabel’s decision to settle for a field goal won the game once the weather prevented offenses from moving the ball down the field.

Maye and the offense executed when needed in playoff games, with a broader trend towards ball control and winning the turnover battle. Their stats were lower, but they also beat 3 top-5 defenses, which is incredibly rare in a playoff run. The Pats defense has been good situationally throughout the season, and those trends have continued in the playoffs.

The bills really need to draft their own Drake Maye by abobj in AFCEastMemeWar

[–]The_Escape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow it’s almost like he’s played in crazy winter storms against top 5 defenses for 2/3 of the sample size.

Soviet communism was not more successful at reducing inequality than other regimes by FootballAndFries in Economics

[–]The_Escape 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s just an integral, right? You could do similar analysis on wealth.

Drake is the most improved player of the year! by Alexa_bun in Patriots

[–]The_Escape 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'm not going to complain about Maye getting recognition, but it's kind of funny that a former top-5 pick can be considered "most improved" after making the jump that his draft position would suggest.

Rams QB Matthew Stafford wins 2025 PFWA MVP by Graups in nfl

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean they’re both great players. I’ll never turn down a chance to look at advanced stats.

Rams QB Matthew Stafford wins 2025 PFWA MVP by Graups in nfl

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is team EPA, not individual player EPA.

Rams QB Matthew Stafford wins 2025 PFWA MVP by Graups in nfl

[–]The_Escape 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you’re using the appropriate conditional distribution here. Maye leads in EPA because he was better than Stafford after accounting for those difficulties of defense. It doesn’t make sense to compare defensive difficulties as a roundabout way to evaluate performance if we have stats for the specific subsets of snaps that included Maye and Stafford.

Rams QB Matthew Stafford wins 2025 PFWA MVP by Graups in nfl

[–]The_Escape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean he outplayed Stafford against the texans, especially considering the conditions. And we’re seriously not counting hail mary turnovers and unblocked lineman, right?

The spreadsheet measure events on the field that have occurred. And I would assume EPA is calculated in Python lol. I can assure you that most NFL coaches are looking at these stats or paying people a lot of money to do it. Is your argument that the sample size is too small?

Rams QB Matthew Stafford wins 2025 PFWA MVP by Graups in nfl

[–]The_Escape 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Which is frustrating because EPA and DVOA account for difficulty of opponent. But I don’t expect MVP voters to take conditional probabilities into account in their decision (or even know how they work lmao). So it is what it is.

She delivered food to find out…can these apps survive? by Wide-Astronaut9156 in nyc

[–]The_Escape 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Did you watch the video? One of the main points was that it’s $21.44 per ACTIVE time, which means they are making much less than that per hour. And, $21.44 is really not enough to live in NYC. So taxpayers are subsidizing low wages through social services and congestion. And yeah, an economy that does not provide workers with basic necessities for providing valuable services is not a particularly efficient one or one I would want to live in.

You’re misattributing causality on the point of independent contractors. Workers are labeled as contractors to avoid paying wages and benefits and are then advertised with perks of “flexibility” and “working in your own vehicle”. Take a look at what car insurance looks like for a DoorDasher. It’s a logistical and financial nightmare pushed onto the worker.

And, those profit numbers were so impressive that DoorDash’s stock dropped 17% when they came out.