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Sports athletes do this. For example players won't attempt end of the quarter half court shots since that will lower their percentages, or QBs taking sacks to n

Sports athletes do this. For example players won't attempt end of the quarter half court shots since that will lower their percentages, or QBs taking sacks to not lower their QB ratings. What they do in sports is keep advanced stats. Instead of just giving a pure mortality rating have mortality rating, by surgery type.

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make3 9y ago
Then they just dodge the hard cases of each specific type of surgery. It's probably still an improvement though on just avoiding a surgery type altogether.
- killjoywashere 9y ago
  Then you track the deferral rates.
  - jessriedel 9y ago
    ...which punishes doctors for serving high-risk population.
  - TheCoelacanth 9y ago
    Then they start operating on people who don't really need it.
skookumchuck 9y ago
One could break out the quarter half court shots as a separate statistic.
- paulcole 9y ago
  At this point it’s very likely all teams do. The stats they’re using are nothing like what was printed on the back of basketball cards when we were kids.
credit_guy 9y ago
Maybe in other sports this happens, but I seriously doubt QB's engage in that. First of all, taking a sack is not pleasant. In the extreme it can take you out of the game, or land you on the IR (injured reserve). Drew Bledsoe was replaced by Tom Brady after such a sack, and was never the star he had been before. Second, the number of sacks a QB takes is a statistic in itself. Third, the top stats for a QB are in this order: touchdowns, interceptions, passing yards, and completion percentage. If a QB takes a sack to avoid an interception, I'm 100% happy with that. If he takes a sack so that his completion percentage is higher by 0.01%, I would not be, but then the completion percentage is reported at the 0.1% level of precision. There is simply too much physical pain in taking a sack for a QB to trade that for an imperceptible gain in a pretty unimportant stat.
- fernandotakai 9y ago
  some QBs like aaron rodgers will take a sack instead of throwing the ball away. rodgers had a 50 sack season twice in his career and has a sack career of 6.96. this is reflected on his interception rate (which is the best in the nfl). he just prefers to take a sack to attempt a pass that could be intercepted -- and everybody looks at those int/td numbers and don't look a lot at sack numbers (because sacks are usually not the qb fault).
brandonmenc 9y ago
Guarantee QBs are doing everything possible to avoid being sacked, and would gladly give up rating points in exchange for not being hit.
- jamaicahest 9y ago
  I could say you're wrong, but then it would simply be my opinion vs your opinion, and the discussion would end there.
paulcole 9y ago
>For example players won't attempt end of the quarter half court shots since that will lower their percentages Durant is particularly bad at this. In an AMA on Reddit, Daryl Morey said he tells his players they keep their own internal stats (most teams do) and ignore heaves. The idea is they’ll be more likely to take them knowing the team won’t hold it against them when negotiating a contract.

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make3 9y ago

Then they just dodge the hard cases of each specific type of surgery. It's probably still an improvement though on just avoiding a surgery type altogether.

killjoywashere 9y ago
Then you track the deferral rates.
- jessriedel 9y ago
  ...which punishes doctors for serving high-risk population.
- TheCoelacanth 9y ago
  Then they start operating on people who don't really need it.

skookumchuck 9y ago

One could break out the quarter half court shots as a separate statistic.

paulcole 9y ago
At this point it’s very likely all teams do. The stats they’re using are nothing like what was printed on the back of basketball cards when we were kids.

credit_guy 9y ago

Maybe in other sports this happens, but I seriously doubt QB's engage in that. First of all, taking a sack is not pleasant. In the extreme it can take you out of the game, or land you on the IR (injured reserve). Drew Bledsoe was replaced by Tom Brady after such a sack, and was never the star he had been before. Second, the number of sacks a QB takes is a statistic in itself. Third, the top stats for a QB are in this order: touchdowns, interceptions, passing yards, and completion percentage. If a QB takes a sack to avoid an interception, I'm 100% happy with that. If he takes a sack so that his completion percentage is higher by 0.01%, I would not be, but then the completion percentage is reported at the 0.1% level of precision. There is simply too much physical pain in taking a sack for a QB to trade that for an imperceptible gain in a pretty unimportant stat.

fernandotakai 9y ago
some QBs like aaron rodgers will take a sack instead of throwing the ball away. rodgers had a 50 sack season twice in his career and has a sack career of 6.96. this is reflected on his interception rate (which is the best in the nfl). he just prefers to take a sack to attempt a pass that could be intercepted -- and everybody looks at those int/td numbers and don't look a lot at sack numbers (because sacks are usually not the qb fault).

brandonmenc 9y ago

Guarantee QBs are doing everything possible to avoid being sacked, and would gladly give up rating points in exchange for not being hit.

jamaicahest 9y ago
I could say you're wrong, but then it would simply be my opinion vs your opinion, and the discussion would end there.

paulcole 9y ago

>For example players won't attempt end of the quarter half court shots since that will lower their percentages Durant is particularly bad at this. In an AMA on Reddit, Daryl Morey said he tells his players they keep their own internal stats (most teams do) and ignore heaves. The idea is they’ll be more likely to take them knowing the team won’t hold it against them when negotiating a contract.