Talk:Contract year phenomenon

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This article was nominated for deletion on 12 February 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

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I removed the so-called "examples" of the contract year phenomenon because it blatantly violated WP:BLP, WP:NOR and WP:RS. I have the impression that the maker of this page used WP to rip people he did not like. —Onomatopoeia (talk) 10:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Another Wikipedia nazi. This isn't some project curing cancer folks, it's one of a billion entries in an online encyclopedia. Enough with the faux sense of importance.

All research is original research at some point. I didn't come up with any of the athletes listed (Erick Dampier, Jerome James etc.) on my own. They were all players who were cited by the print or television media as players that cashed in and didn't fulfill expectations after that. But I guess since I didn't cite 10 articles from the New York Times then it must not be true. I don't have a grudge against overpaid sucky players. These people are famous because they got huge contracts and then played sucky. Would anyone even know who Jerome James is without his contract? Is this whole thing made up when you can post stats to back it up? My stats on Dampier were deleted with everything else, but the bottom line is that he played seven seasons and only once did he average double figures (points, 97-98). Then in his contract year he averaged a double double. In the four seasons since then, he has not averaged double figures. So - ten seasons of not doing something, one season of doing it....which just happened to be his contract year.

Yes, I must be a jaded Erick Dampier hater. NICK RIVERS OUT. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick Rivers (talk • contribs) 19:05, 17 April 2008 (UTC)