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Brian Burke is making a fool of himself at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
He's on a panel titled "It's Not You, It's Me: Break-Ups in Sports" (with Stan Van Gundy, Bill Polian, Steve Pagliuca, John Buccigross, and Jackie MacMullan). Here are some of his better (worse?) quotes:
He's on a panel titled "It's Not You, It's Me: Break-Ups in Sports" (with Stan Van Gundy, Bill Polian, Steve Pagliuca, John Buccigross, and Jackie MacMullan). Here are some of his better (worse?) quotes:
It's an eyeball business. If you're looking at statistics, I want you in our division.
No one ever won a title with Moneyball.
Statistics are like a lamppost for a drunk: useful for support, but not illumination.