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Nowhere is the insane relationship between guys and sports stats more evident than in the Madden football game series.  I just watched two guys from EA Sports justify the process by which they assign ratings to every player in the NFL.  (One player, TJ Houshmandzadeh, a receiver for the Seahawks, is boycotting the game in protest of the rating they assigned to him.)  The EA guys went through a complicated self-justification involving combine scores, performance, stats, watching every game, the number of celebrities who have dated Alyssa Milano at some point, draft position, the phase of the moon, and God knows what else.  All of this effort to make their process seem completely scientific and rationale, but in the end, they're just trying to cover up the fact that the answer is, "we look at stats and stuff, and then we . . . uh . . . kinda just make it up."

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