EPTOn July 14 2020 01:36 Alejandrisha wrote:
yes it is indeed a question for the ages. i like that you brought up traditional sports. why are baseball gods, who hit 95-100 mph fast balls thrown from 60 feet away for a living (euro: 153-161 kmph from 18 meters away) with reaction times around .2 seconds able to sustain .300+ batting averages for 15+ years? even though every pitcher has studied them they still can't get them out reliabily. and yet sometimes these gods of baseball slump and hit .100 for 100's of atbats. i don't think we will ever know what fosters peak performance because every athlete is different. and perhaps 'peak performance' or 'skill ceiling' doesn't even exist. that's why handicapping starcraft games... and baseball games.. is so damn. hard. you can study every statistic derived from a player's performance but you never know who is going to show up that day. like i said, humans are flawed.
yes it is indeed a question for the ages. i like that you brought up traditional sports. why are baseball gods, who hit 95-100 mph fast balls thrown from 60 feet away for a living (euro: 153-161 kmph from 18 meters away) with reaction times around .2 seconds able to sustain .300+ batting averages for 15+ years? even though every pitcher has studied them they still can't get them out reliabily. and yet sometimes these gods of baseball slump and hit .100 for 100's of atbats. i don't think we will ever know what fosters peak performance because every athlete is different. and perhaps 'peak performance' or 'skill ceiling' doesn't even exist. that's why handicapping starcraft games... and baseball games.. is so damn. hard. you can study every statistic derived from a player's performance but you never know who is going to show up that day. like i said, humans are flawed.
While I may be no sports god, I know that some days I work better than others. Sometimes these bad days appear with no apparent reason. Others it's very clear: slept too late, in the wrong position or got woken up by the rubbish lorry. Or maybe I ate something that is making my stomach slightly uncomfortable. Or I didn't drink enough coffee. Or I drank too much coffee. Or I had an argument with my wife. Or someone near to me got sick/injured. Etc. etc. etc. Some of these things can be solved with discipline. Others with focus. Others just.. well.. not. Sometimes your training and talent are enough to make you perform sufficiently despite being off your game. And sometimes you make stupid mistakes that mean the next day you have to do it all again (or in the case of Maru, lose to Meomaika)
