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Message: [QUOTE="BlueSkyGLW, post: 5047212, member: 11281"] Continuing: As many have said, this is ESPN creation for their own self-serving purpose (more click baits), except it is out there and some people will believe and quote it, After finding all sorts of omissions and biases......objections to anything would be endless and pointless.....this is only the collection of their opinions.....judging athletes in the context of individual sports vs team sports wanders into the realm of the extreme subjective in their deliberations. Yes, they tell you what their criteria were and how they did it.....doesn't eliminate the issues. For example, alleged reliance on statistics tilts it from true value in team sports.... it would tend to undervalue the smaller point guard in basketball whose intangible influence in the success or failure of the team and how it plays is not easily captured by statistics fully. A good example is Ms. Clark of the Indiana Fever: as she learns to adjust to playing in the pros, her floor play in dictating the tempo for her team and setting up teammates for success underscores the true value of a playmaking point guard who can score. The team is growing into a better style of play, sharing the ball and it has dramatically improved a little over halfway into the season. And yet, what she is doing is being eclipsed in conversations among those who are size-centric in their assessments, favoring instead big women, saying the proof is in the statistics. As if that fully captures the point guard's influence in how the team plays. [/QUOTE]

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