Math is hard for Jimmy

[*Fox2Monk*]

Jimmy has a compound fracture! Jimmies gonna get you Kramer!

 

[saxonburgcat]

This may be an epidemic. Here's what Eric Decker at KSR had to say in response to Alabama's poor three point shooting:

Three is worth more than two. Therefore, using the power of basic math and global economics, you can deduce that you want to be hitting threes at a rate of at least 33% or it just mathematically doesn’t make sense to even be taking them.

Really? That might make sense if you are hitting 50% of your twos. But what if you can only hit 40% of your twos?

In all fairness, his entire article, even though it was attempting to say something nice about UK, didn't make sense.

Yeah, I think there are too many variables in basketball that it is impossible to use just math to determine if shooting 3's does or doesn't make sense. For example, shooting a 3 pulls the defense away from the basket unless it is Wheeler who is shooting it. LOL

 

[UK96GOAT]

There are only three kinds of people in the world. Those that can count and those that can’t.

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

Did anyone else notice Jimmy’s math when Oscar was shooting free throws?

Being as generous as possible to Jimmy, with a jump from 70% to 75%, it require 60 attempts per game for a player to score an extra 3 points per game.
At his current rate of attempts per game, a jump of 5% in his free throw shooting would actually result in only 0.23 additional points per game.

I get it that analysts aren’t expected to be masters of sports analytics or anything, but he should be embarrassed to be that bad at basic arithmetic in such a public forum.

Nobody told Jimmy there was going to be math...

 

[RandallCrum]

I still saw some hate toward Jimmy last week when he had a play and got in trouble with allowed attempts. I understand him since my algebra problems with rational exponents and radicals are complicated enough for me to deal. My luck is that I found https://plainmath.net/secondary/algebra/algebra-ii/rational-exponents-and-radicals to get free solutions and help with my difficult exercises. I've got good experience with Plainmath, and so I recommend it.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Math is Hard