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You've got guys scoring 10x the points of other people though? The reason it's awkward in sports is sports are head on competitive. Put a crappy team in a matc

• Jensson 4y ago
  You have similar explanations for programming. Lets say that person A can reason about 1.5x more complex problems than his peers. His peers will be productive and contribute a lot of code until the codebase reaches their complexity limit, and then they start to really struggle. Lets say that A then comes onto that team at that moment, to A there is still plenty of room left before the project is beyond him, so he can work full speed as normal. In this situation A would probably contribute 10x more than anyone else on the team, not because he is 10x better but because he is still over that threshold.
• lelanthran 4y ago
  > You've got guys scoring 10x the points of other people though? Not 10x more than the median, I don't think. (Happy to be proved wrong with a link to a player scoring 10x more than the median scorer[1]). [1] In some games, like soccer, for example, it makes no sense to compare goals between strikers and goalies - goalies aren't expected to score, and so they almost never do.
  • lordnacho 4y ago
    Of course you're right about apples-to-apples but a guy like CR7 has scored quite a lot more goals than your average striker, surely? Keep in mind he also has had a longer career with more games, due to being really good. It's hard to say who is median because the not-top guys don't get that many games before they get sold to a lower standard team, or just benched. Isn't it normal in basketball to have one guy dominating the points?