I already see where this is going. What I hope you might talk about in a future post is where have all the multi-sport athletes gone. I know that a lot of old players used to be multi-sport athletes in college but I don't hear much about them in the modern day. The way I see it, players are specializing earlier in their career than pervious players and the tools that allow them to specialize are now more widely available. Let's also not forget the advent of the Internet, wasn't it a little strange to see the Sports Illustrated and FiveThirtyEight articles start at 2008? PITCHf/x start in 2006 and since 2009, every pitch an MLB game is findable*. With more data, more tape, and more time to study, the best players may not have gotten better but the average player has gotten better.
I already see where this is going. What I hope you might talk about in a future post is where have all the multi-sport athletes gone. I know that a lot of old players used to be multi-sport athletes in college but I don't hear much about them in the modern day. The way I see it, players are specializing earlier in their career than pervious players and the tools that allow them to specialize are now more widely available. Let's also not forget the advent of the Internet, wasn't it a little strange to see the Sports Illustrated and FiveThirtyEight articles start at 2008? PITCHf/x start in 2006 and since 2009, every pitch an MLB game is findable*. With more data, more tape, and more time to study, the best players may not have gotten better but the average player has gotten better.