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I think this can apply to all sports but I approach this more from an NBA angle.

I'll preface this by saying, I'm a statistics and analytics guy. I work in the field, and truly understand its value in optimizing things.

That being said.... Analytics are killing sports.

Everything is viewed from an analytics angle, and as a result things sports are now optimized leveraging those analytics. It's why the NBA is full of 3 point shots and the mid-range game is absent. Analytics has found that the most efficient shots are 3 pointers and shots at the rim.

What makes sports exciting is the randomness of it, the hero ball, the emotion, the drama. That is literally all being sucked away into something that's now simply a clinical personification of a math equation.

In an attempt to perfect the sport, we're slowly losing the excitement that's derived from imperfection. We're losing the human quality of it.

What do you all think? Is my head up my ass or do you all feel similarly?