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If we say that goalkeeping requires certain skills, and being an outfielder also requires certain skills, these skills being graphed on a chart, its simple to s

If we say that goalkeeping requires certain skills, and being an outfielder also requires certain skills, these skills being graphed on a chart, its simple to see that Messi would not perform well as a goalkeeper, and this is still curvefitting. If it turns out that the goalkeeper and outfielder have a lot of overlapping skills, we might fall back and refer to a probability curve of things that normally happen; "players require practice to excel in their position" would seem to fall on that curve. The fact is that everything in the world can be reduced down to curves. It's just a matter of your perspective.

lordnacho 7y ago
> If we say that goalkeeping requires certain skills... If it turns out that the goalkeeper and outfielder have a lot of overlapping skills... That's kinda the problem here. Once you have a model fitting curves is fine. But you need a structure from somewhere. > players require practice to excel in their position The problem with this is there's no data. Nobody gets to play a position they haven't practiced for. Yet you still somehow came to the right conclusion. Anyway Pearl is much better at explaining this than I am.