Private Message to Cedric
Dec. 30th, 2012 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_linusCedric,
I have been considering your suggestion that attempting to quantify what you referred to as the intangibles of quidditch team dynamics would be a worthy project, and I believe you are correct. At the very least, I shall get some practice in charms for displaying the analysis of various data, which may prove helpful in classes and other projects. To that end, I should like to ask you and other followers of the game some questions about noteworthy teams and their best (and worst) seasons. If you have recommendations as to useful informants on the topic, I would be most grateful -- and suggestions on highly-regarded reference works would be happily received as well.
What you said about Oliver Wood being a perfectly competent Keeper but making his whole team play better definitely caught my interest. I plan to see if I can use the performance measurements of teams that suddenly demonstrate an upturn in skills (both individual and teamwork) to spot the hitherto unnoted effects of such unseen catalysts (or anti-catalysts). It's a bit like what Professor Siz described to us when she was teaching us to "see" stars that we couldn't see by noticing what they did to the ones that we could see.
Oh. Thank you again for your encouraging words on the duties and comportment of a prefect, by the way. I took them to heart, along with Padma's exhortations, and things did seem to be improving by the time we left for hols.
I have been considering your suggestion that attempting to quantify what you referred to as the intangibles of quidditch team dynamics would be a worthy project, and I believe you are correct. At the very least, I shall get some practice in charms for displaying the analysis of various data, which may prove helpful in classes and other projects. To that end, I should like to ask you and other followers of the game some questions about noteworthy teams and their best (and worst) seasons. If you have recommendations as to useful informants on the topic, I would be most grateful -- and suggestions on highly-regarded reference works would be happily received as well.
What you said about Oliver Wood being a perfectly competent Keeper but making his whole team play better definitely caught my interest. I plan to see if I can use the performance measurements of teams that suddenly demonstrate an upturn in skills (both individual and teamwork) to spot the hitherto unnoted effects of such unseen catalysts (or anti-catalysts). It's a bit like what Professor Siz described to us when she was teaching us to "see" stars that we couldn't see by noticing what they did to the ones that we could see.
Oh. Thank you again for your encouraging words on the duties and comportment of a prefect, by the way. I took them to heart, along with Padma's exhortations, and things did seem to be improving by the time we left for hols.