I don't really get why this is "highly controversial" unless it's just more TC link bait.
Sounds like a good idea to me; if they're able to do what what Moneyball did for baseball and what PER did (to a lesser extent) did for basketball all the power to them. What's the downside of having more accurate tools and indicators> Since the tool will be public and founders will know what to focus on.
However, I highly doubt too many VC's will take them seriously until they start producing verifiable results instead of form fitting historical data. Very few took sabermetrics and some of the other sports' quant stuff seriously to start either.
If you read Arrington's first post about YouNoodle http://bit.ly/326Nx6, he was very scathing to the point of being unfair. Along with Crunchbase, my guess is that he wants TC to be the Goto point for startups, not YouNoodle, and YouNoodle is positioned to establish many relationships with many entrepreneurs to which he may be jealous.
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I don't really get why this is "highly controversial" unless it's just more TC link bait.
Sounds like a good idea to me; if they're able to do what what Moneyball did for baseball and what PER did (to a lesser extent) did for basketball all the power to them. What's the downside of having more accurate tools and indicators> Since the tool will be public and founders will know what to focus on.
However, I highly doubt too many VC's will take them seriously until they start producing verifiable results instead of form fitting historical data. Very few took sabermetrics and some of the other sports' quant stuff seriously to start either.
If you read Arrington's first post about YouNoodle http://bit.ly/326Nx6, he was very scathing to the point of being unfair. Along with Crunchbase, my guess is that he wants TC to be the Goto point for startups, not YouNoodle, and YouNoodle is positioned to establish many relationships with many entrepreneurs to which he may be jealous.
"It’s hype and nonsense, and it won’t work." ~MA
Ah ok thanks for the background information. Arrington sounds like a lot of old school baseball scouts and GMs.