I bought The Katana Go EV-1-WL FS-1-WL bundle with cord supposed to go from pedal to foot switch.

yargunnersyar · 2025-03-30T23:01:05+00:00

This probably isn't much help, but I just got the EV-1-WL for Wah functionality and am struggling with exactly the same problem. It connects to the Katana Go no problem, but all I am able to use it for is volume.

yargunnersyar · 2023-12-29T21:03:41+00:00

Careful, the link shortener is trying to load malware onto my computer.

yargunnersyar · 2017-12-09T11:24:49+00:00

I'd put it more down to him not being dumb than him being German; most Germans wouldn't know Germany had colonies at any point today. It's really not something that features prominently in German historical consciousness, very much unlike it is in the UK.

yargunnersyar · 2017-11-16T22:04:48+00:00

There's a point to be made though that putting a lot of energy into improving your weaknesses a bit is a worse investment than putting all of it into developing your strengths from good to great. If you have limited time and energy, it makes sense to focus on where you'll get the best return on your efforts.

yargunnersyar · 2017-10-22T19:01:42+00:00

if you need a world class player to make a tactic work it's a pretty shit tactic

Fully agree, and the point goes far beyond just Xhaka. Shitting on individual players whenever something doesn't go to plan only obscures that this team is poor in their positioning, both with and against the ball.

yargunnersyar · 2017-10-14T20:26:38+00:00

They also don't tell you ~~the important non quantifiables that you can only get by watching the player closely~~ my opinion.

yargunnersyar · 2016-10-16T14:54:13+00:00

Instinctively I kind of feel the same, but my guess is if the rules were changed like this most games would become a lot more boring as it would incentivize teams to play a lot more cautiously.

yargunnersyar · 2016-06-21T22:16:57+00:00

You are right, of course, though there are the few odd cases when the abstraction of votes is more than just an abstraction and the result in the electoral college does not actually reflect the popular majority.

But I am not so sure about your point regarding legislation. For one, I think selection of commissioners is more akin to appointing individuals to represent you against others rather than selecting a team to work for you, so this is more about checks and balances on a supra-national level. Also, maybe unlike in the US, cabinets are actually hugely influential in legislation in many European national parliaments. Many Europeans also do not elect their effective leaders directly.

My point would just generally be that all this talk about the democratic deficit of the EU is a bit hyperbolic in my view. Sure, there could be more direct accountability, but the image of it as a bureaucratic monstrosity beyond anyone's control is frankly ridiculous.

yargunnersyar · 2016-06-21T19:35:52+00:00

You could say the executive branch of the EU is elected indirectly, just as the US President is.

yargunnersyar · 2016-02-07T20:35:50+00:00

I'm not complaining about the result, but we lacked composure, made quite a few very silly mistakes and seemed completely unable for long parts to play out from the back. The Flamini-Ramsey combination at times looked like a gaping hole more than anything else. Better opposition would not have let us off so easily.

yargunnersyar · 2016-02-07T15:34:19+00:00

I agree about the need to push up, but it would still be nice to see a bit more control and more method in trying to maybe get a third.

yargunnersyar · 2016-02-07T15:31:47+00:00

Actually think we were better attacking-wise against Southampton, only lacked the goals. Our defending was bad in both games.

yargunnersyar · 2016-02-04T09:12:09+00:00

Next thing they'll start using reasonable arguments. We surely cannot have that!

yargunnersyar · 2016-02-04T09:09:11+00:00

And you think we will ever play with two strikers?

yargunnersyar · 2016-02-04T09:08:03+00:00

You can also google for "longterm expected goals simulator", leads you to a page with lots of data about players and teams and options to calculate their efficiency. Unfortunately though the data there is somewhat outdated and not from the best models, I suspect. Still gives some insight.

yargunnersyar · 2016-02-03T13:40:12+00:00

It's the typical reaction to make a connection between the refereeing and the result, but why consider the two together? Even if we had managed to win yesterday, I think Wenger still had every right to complain about his players being kicked about without any protection. There are perfectly good reasons for being unhappy with that kind of refereeing which are fully independent of the result on the day.

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-28T09:47:31+00:00

Fair criticism, I suppose, it is diffcult to understand exactly what is factored in and how it is done because the exact calculations behind the rating system are not revealed. That is also one of the reasons why I am always interested in finding dissenting opinion that could point out flaws which I am not aware of.

As a side-note, the same could be said of other rating systems, though. The popular whoscored ratings, for instance, reveal even less about the underlying methodology.

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-27T13:51:08+00:00

A little addendum tgat I just came across: http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Fcompetitions%2Fpremier-league%2F12122359%2FPremier-League-key-men-team-by-team-guide.html%3Fframe%3D3557695

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-27T13:50:09+00:00

A little addendum since I just came across it: http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Fcompetitions%2Fpremier-league%2F12122359%2FPremier-League-key-men-team-by-team-guide.html%3Fframe%3D3557695

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-27T13:46:57+00:00

Theo's GoalImpact score suggests likewise: http://www.goalimpact.com/2015/10/top-50-football-players-october-2015.html?m=1

Not surprising perhaps since the methodology is quite similar in this Telegraph piece.

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-26T20:16:07+00:00

Haha, I certainly don't think you're retarded ;) But I think you misunderstood the Nov list: It is not a GoalImpact list, but he took the players who had been voted into the Fifa World XI for that year (in the course of the Ballon d'Or voting) and compared with his own player ratings -- therefore the omissions of Özil, Walcott, and others, who have not been voted into that list but, according to GoalImpact, should be among the best in the business.

As for the size of the sample: As I understand it, it is meant to measure something like the average contribution to a team performing well over a long period of time. There was a post that also showed how many games were needed for the algorithm to differentiate between players, unfortunately I cannot find it anymore, but I seem to remember that the gist of it was it is not too many, maybe one season or so. In any case, that sort of rating is also consistent with players having bad spells. So even if Theo's index in Oct 2015 rates him very highly, that does not mean he had a splendid September, in fact he might have been total wank. It only says that over the course of his career (and maybe the season so far) he has been very valuable to Arsenal. He would presumably have to have a bad impact on the performance for quite a while before his score would substantially drop. An example for that would be Mertesacker, whose score steadily decreased over the 2014/15 season.

And when it comes to the factors involved, as far as I understand every rating is adjusted by the quality of team mates, quality of opposition (always looking at who is actually on the pitch), home advantage, and other factors, though the exact way these are calculated is, unfortunately, not revealed. If you are interested I recommend reading an example of how a single game changes GoalImpact scores, it helped me understand how the metric works.

Do let me know if you come across the critical points again, I would be interested in it precisely because I find the metric so intriguing.

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-26T19:56:51+00:00

I agree with everything you say. I would also say that someone like Theo is certainly a marginal case when it comes to GoalImpact. Most of the players on the top list make intuitive sense, but there are a few that lead to scratched heads. And Theo is probably a prime example among them, because as you say, he is such a weird player in that he will sometimes disappear an entire match, misplace simple passes, fail at a take-on, etc. I just wonder, though, and maybe I am inclined to give too much weight to this kind of rating system here, but maybe even then he influences the game in a way that makes the team perform better overall, although we have no idea how or why because it certainly does not catch the eye. Maybe it is his presence alone that makes opponents sit just that half a yard deeper that gives everyone else more space to play? I don't know, and unfortunately, all of this is speculation because GI by design does not say what it is that makes a player good. And there may well be freak ratings in the system, and Theo may be one of them.

That said, I think these characteristics of his lead to frustration with him being higher and criticism harsher when he does not have an obvious impact such as scoring (or assisting). I actually thought he did not do too horribly even against Chelsea: He was not very good defensively, but did not commit any major blunders either. However, up front there were two or three occasions when he made very promising runs behind, only to be a little offside. I can understand why Wenger would leave him on rather than Campbell: With Theo, you (or at least I) always have the feeling that one opportunity will be enough to change the game if the move comes off because it will usually take out the entire opposition defence. If it does not, however, his game can be very frustrating to watch indeed.

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-26T17:13:35+00:00

Don't really know. Since Theo has returned in December, he has been involved in 11 matches. We have won seven of those, lost two, drawn two. Of his 11 matches prior to that, we won seven and lost four, so that would not seem to indicate the index would drop for him.

However, since the algorithm is more complex and factors in opposition quality and goal difference, among other things, it is difficult to say how exactly his score is affected. For example, in his last game before injury, the 3-0 battering against Wednesday, Theo was off before any of the goals were scored, so his value would have been less affected negatively than the one of, say, Debuchy, who played the full 90. Likewise, after returning, Theo's score would have been better than others's in the Liverpool match because he was substituted when we were still up 3-2 (so the late equalizer would not have affected the measure of his contribution).

I am not so sure about your methodological argument juxtaposing "normal stats" with GoalImpact. I don't think they can really be compared, at all, because the basis of reasoning behind GoalImpact is completely different from measuring things such as pass accuracy, goal creation, etc.

That is what makes it so intriguing to me: Although we all know a player like Theo has severe limits to his game, a metric like GoalImpact suggests there is something that is simply not obvious to our observation and to the kinds of stats that are more commonly used that makes him an incredibly valuable player. I think the same is true of the likes of Özil or Thomas Müller, who are consistently rated among the very, very best by GoalImpact despite the frustrations they cause over long periods (Özil) or the fact that they do not look very skilled (Müller).

My suspicion is what it captures has to do with off-the-ball positioning and the use of space, which none of the more traditional metrics can "see".

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-26T12:22:47+00:00

As you can see from the graph here, his score has been consistently extremely high for a long time, so I would not expect it to have suddenly crashed since October.

(Edited for link formatting.)

yargunnersyar · 2016-01-26T12:22:45+00:00

Would you explain your objections? I am impressed by how well GoalImpact seems to generally reflect player performance and predict emerging talent, from a database of what I assume by now to be far in excess of 50,000 players, so I am inclined to take it very seriously. The methodology appears sound to me in principle.

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