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Re:Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-E... by wbl on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:23PM (#45688741)
Its extremely useful in sports. We evaluate batters on OPS vs RBI, and no one ever evaluated them on runs they happened to score. We talk all the time about a QB and his linemen working together and the receivers. If all we talked about was the immediate cause we'd miss all that.
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Re:Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-E... by ericyd on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:22PM (#45696184)
I'm not saying we ignore all other causes in sports analysis, I'm saying it doesn't make sense to pretend that there's no "one person" who hit the home run or scored a touchdown. Of course it's usually a team effort but we still attribute a score to one person.
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