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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 828152" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>Let me give an example in another way. There's a product that two salesmen sell - this product can be bought as a one-off, or as a repeated service, month-on-month. </p><p></p><p>On a given day, person A sells £200 of this product and person B sells £300 of the product. Great, so you infer that person B is a better salesman. But lurking in the background is some data that says that person A sold more of the product on a repeat basis; half of person A's customers will be repeat buyers who have put orders in for future months, compared to only a quarter of person B. The problem with the £200-£300 data is that it doesn't provide much context beyond what was sold on the day.</p><p></p><p>So with meters run: when you add both meters made in a clean break, and "hard meters made", you miss out on important information. We cannot tell from meters per run how effective someone is at taking the ball into contact. Making the hard meters and setting up next phase ball is the bread and butter responsibility of a number 8. Judging them on meters per run, which effectively only tells you how good someone is at making breaks, is unfair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 828152, member: 55446"] Let me give an example in another way. There's a product that two salesmen sell - this product can be bought as a one-off, or as a repeated service, month-on-month. On a given day, person A sells £200 of this product and person B sells £300 of the product. Great, so you infer that person B is a better salesman. But lurking in the background is some data that says that person A sold more of the product on a repeat basis; half of person A's customers will be repeat buyers who have put orders in for future months, compared to only a quarter of person B. The problem with the £200-£300 data is that it doesn't provide much context beyond what was sold on the day. So with meters run: when you add both meters made in a clean break, and "hard meters made", you miss out on important information. We cannot tell from meters per run how effective someone is at taking the ball into contact. Making the hard meters and setting up next phase ball is the bread and butter responsibility of a number 8. Judging them on meters per run, which effectively only tells you how good someone is at making breaks, is unfair. [/QUOTE]
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