All one needs to do to refute the idea that record-keeping is ambiguous is look at Fezzik's earliest days of posting public plays on SSB in 2001 or 2002. All plays were graded against widely available lines, and for certain plays when Fezzik said "play at gametime," he asked the subscribers what line they got. Several subscribers would chime in, someone with access to a DonBest line history might post a line history, and the play would be fairly graded. I recently read about two years worth of Fezzik plays over there and didn't see a single grading argument. Another example is Scott Kellen who I'm pretty sure was one of the "recommended handicappers" here before football season began. I've been subscribed to his service for 7 or 8 years and never once did I see him grade a play unfairly.
This stuff is really simple--grade plays against WA numbers, meaning that a follower with a reasonable number of outs had a good chance of getting down on the play. Anything else is labeled NWA and kept as a separate record. Most of the "arguments" on the old LVA board involved Dan Gordon or David Matthews trying to grade a play at a number that was either only available at Pinnacle in the middle of the night or was only available at a single book. Obviously a subscriber has little chance of following a play only at one book since they'd need an account at that specific book and need to get there before someone else moved the line at that book. Fezzik had no problems following that "widely available" methodology years ago so I have no idea why it's such a concern now.
The other argument that "this isn't a picks site" is kind of foolish considering that you only need to look at the MLB board that just opened, the first threads there are "which cappers am I supposed to follow." People are obviously here because they want to follow picks.
In any event, I don't think there's much point debating this as Anthony's made it very clear that this isn't up for discussion and posts debating the policy will be deleted. It's just pretty ridiculous that when someone earlier in the thread questioned the logic behind one of Fezzik's plays and was immediately asked "What's your record?" when Anthony and Fezzik aren't interested in keeping records.
