Sometimes my brain leads me into some strange places. Other times, it asks incredibly mundane questions, such as is it better to score goals or prevent goals? To win games, you obviously need to do both, which is why the question sounds dumb. But it’s a fundamental part of team philosophy. The cliché is that “defence wins championships” and even if defence and offence are nearly equal in determining success, that “nearly” can make all the difference.
In this case, that dumb question led me to spend a whole bunch of time poring over numbers, creating graphs, and pondering how defence is handled by the current advanced statistics we have available. I probably should have left well enough alone.
