How to Measure It

I have been doing a lot of thinking about efficiency and particularly how it relates to power soccer lately. Really, as far as I can tell from a pretty major search of the Internet, no one has ever tried to make some form of statistic that would explain how effectively a player has been playing. I have read articles about this for basketball, and I think it could definitely be applied to power soccer. Why efficiency you ask? Well, I feel like the ultimate goal for a power soccer player, although this can apply to any athlete, to have it every move he or she makes add value to the team. If everything you do during the game makes a positive impact, then it has been a successful game. Therefore, I want to measure this. I'm not sure how I want to do it, but I have a feeling it can be done. In basketball, relative weights are often assigned to points, rebounds, and every other normal basketball statistic. In power soccer, we don't have that luxury of having a bunch of different statistics to measure. Therefore, I think I will need to create some. I'll keep you posted if I develop anything worth mentioning.

Radical Sport

I think that I should invent a new sport. As I sit here in my hotel room in Lake Placid, I'm looking at a framed photograph on the wall of the Olympic ski jump towers that were used in 1980. How awesome would wheelchair ski jumping be? No, you don't have to call the cops; this is not some sort of odd suicide plot. I just think it would be awesome to have wheelchairs flying through the air given the fact that the landing would be something that I could do more than once. However, I do have proof that wheelchairs can fly without wings or jet engines. Don't believe me? Watch this YouTube video. I'm convinced that some type of device of this sort could be rigged to make a wheelchair fly off of a ski jump tower. Granted, this wouldn't really be ski jumping in the classic sense, but I think that obviously a way that would not be deadly would be worth compromising the original sport slightly. Also, I wonder how you could adapt this for a much heavier wheelchair such as my own. It would need to be a pretty major sail. I don't know, but it seems that people are so resourceful that somebody will develop wheelchair ski jumping for those people who in my opinion would be crazy enough to try it.

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