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because they save fans money by never charging service fees ever. Oh, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Mac and Collar here and a very interesting

guest on the show going a little bit of a different path here today with author Chris Jones. You're laughing already. I like that. I mean it's unique because we often have

football players on the show but we have author Chris Jones. It's one of my favorite writers of all time and his book coming out in January the eye test a case for human creativity in the age of analytics and you're going to help me with a problem I have Chris are you ready to do this?

Well yeah okay let's get started. Yeah because this is for having me on by the way and

thank you for your kind group and now I feel like I'm about to get filleted but

no it's not that. But the premise of your book is that, you know, we have all these numbers and everything else,

but numbers are created by humans and numbers can be flawed and they can tell us the wrong things and that people who have the right eyes can figure out and cut through the truth. And I just, there's so many stories that I could share that people should

will want to read in here but I love the story of the weatherman who hacked the

price is right and the the story of Teller from Penn and Teller is one of my favorites and it's got my favorite

quote of all time in here from him and you know exactly what I'm talking about when he says that the real magic is that no one would ever put this much time into magic tricks.

But here's my problem that I'm having.

Okay. The quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings, Kurt Cousins, has one of the greatest quarterback

ratings of all time. Fifth in NFL history and has had a top 10 rating every single year and they don't win Chris.

And you laugh but I cannot tell you how unusual this is.

So I went through all of the this might be taking more time than anyone should ever take with something. I don't know if it's magical or not, but I went through all the top 10 rankings each year

quarterback rating and they almost always win

like 65 to 75 percent of games for the top 10 quarterbacks

in terms of of winning percentage.

And I feel like this is a very human problem of why Kirk Cousins does not win football games.

So I want to talk to you about athletes, statistics,

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