Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)

22 points by SSJPython 11 months ago | 13 comments
  • nindalf 11 months ago
    There's a subreddit dedicated to stats like this where Messi is so far and away from the competition that he's in the top right of the plot - https://www.reddit.com/r/TopRightMessi/
    • TRiG_Ireland 11 months ago
      Not as impressive as Don Bradman, mind you.
      • Smoosh 11 months ago
        In discussions like this, I like to bring up Heather McKay.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_McKay

        “She lost only two matches in her entire career (in 1960 and 1962), and was unbeaten in competitive squash matches from 1962 through to 1981, when she retired”

        • TRiG_Ireland 11 months ago
          Very impressive! And also Australian.
    • fitsumbelay 11 months ago
      I'll never get over watching him score a hand of god goal during a la liga match on live tv, can't recall if it was vs Betis or Racing Club. no matter how awesome his stats are, there's still that unexplainable, red-cardable offense.
      • devnullbrain 11 months ago
        This was 4 Ballon d'Ors ago
        • empath75 11 months ago
          I'd love to see an update of it with stats from his full career though.
        • rectang 11 months ago
          Irrelevant to the article but 2014 is back in the era when we used to see even more of this:

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          • wwilim 11 months ago
            2014 is also the era when you have links to Vine instead of TikTok.

            I miss Vine.

          • nindalf 11 months ago
            Why did that particular instance happen?
            • rectang 11 months ago
              Probably:

              The text was represented in UTF-8, the curly apostrophe (code point U+2019) was represented as the 3-byte sequence 0xE2 0x80 0x99. In buggy code, the individual bytes were then misinterpreted as code points U+00E2 "â", U+0080 "€", U+0099 <control>. The misinterpretation of multiple code units as multiple code points happened multiple times resulting in the continued expansion to the sequence you see here.

              Misinterpreting code units from one of the UTFs as Unicode code points is a classic problem. It most often arises from weak typing where byte strings and text strings are not strongly differentiated from each other, but it can also be server misconfiguration or other problems.

              (See this preso for a more thorough explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhvaeHoIE24&t=2870s )

          • tkubacki 11 months ago
            Messi for football is same as Gauss for math. Pure genius.