Thread by @gauravsabnis

In which @cricketingview uses simple objective data to make a great observation, but people hate it because it doesn't gel with the dramatic sports media and sports social media narrative.

Our failing as a species is that we value drama above facts.

cricketingview.substack.com/p/all-captains…

A culture so deeply into hero worship is bound to react testily when someone just uses simple numbers and facts to show that their heroes were perhaps not as exceptional as generally thought.

This bit by @cricketingview reminds me of when I try to explain the Nash Equilibrium to students.

But the simple fact is that if most cricket fans truly got what Kartikeya is saying, there would not be much cricket analysis. Or any sports analysis. Cos no drama.

So many of these sports phenomena are phenomenal only because we collectively suspend disbelief long enough to consider them phenomenal.

In the world we live in, this pretty much explains why it is pointless to agonize too much about strategies or tactics in any professional or international or high profile sports encounter. Everyone is always in Nash Equilibrium.

There is no Copablanca IYKWIM.