JoeRedskin
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First: You're wrong. He did not add further claims to his original statement. He made statements which support and provide a basis for the original claim.
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He made a claim. The burden of proof is his to prove that claim. Did what you are generously labelling "supporting statements" prove anything? No. They were just additional unsupported claims.
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Given your stance on the use of "mostly useless" statistics to "prove" a point, your earlier invitation for him to prove his statement relying on statistics is disengenous at best.
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Why disingenuous? He thinks he can prove something with stats not me.
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He has made a claim: Brooks is the best QB. He then supports it by asserting that Brooks excels at those things that good QB's need to do. Simply b/c he did not support his assertion in the manner you have asked him to does not mean he hasn't offered support.
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Let him support it anyway he wants to. I don't care. But I'm asking for him to prove his claim not for additional unsupported claims.
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Can you disprove any of his supporting assertions and, thus, call into question his final conclusion?
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I don't have to. It's his claim not mine.
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What must he provide as a basis for support of his claim? Accepting your theory that stats are mostly useless, any use of stats will inevitably fail.
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His proof is his problem. Yes, it obvious to me that he'll fail but I can't help it if the facts aren't on his side.
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The circular nature of your argument is truly amazing: You assert stats are mostly useless for providing a comparison of players. Then assert someone has not proven their point b/c they have not relied on stats to compare the player to others.
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Strawman. Quote please. Where did I make that assertion?
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IF, instead, it is your position that, as he is arguing that stats are important and valuable comparisons, he must provide a statistical basis for his position re: Aaron Brooks, THEN you have failed to grasp the point of the statement or are deliberately failing to answer it.
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Maybe I wrote something that has given you the wrong impression. Where did you get the idea that I'm making statistical proof of his claim a requirement? I don't care how he proves his claim.