Re: Hard to quantify sports question
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C'mon Dids, in every sport being the son of a great player or even a bad one gives you a huge advantage in terms of development, actual talent, and opportunities. It's not like any of the ones you mentioned don't deserve to be there anyway.
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Yeah, but its a ridiculously high percentage in NASCAR, which is actually more support for the "training plus experience" side, rather than the innate talent side. Baseball is probably played closer to "limits of human ability" and with enough people getting all that training and experience can provide, innate talent has a much bigger impact. Thus, you don't see nearly as many 'legacies,' more than what chance would suggest (due to good genes) but less than in NASCAR.
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