Ryan Lefebvre knows he has critics.
This is, I suppose, not surprising. Any time you’re a Personality, via the internet, television, or otherwise, you know that people have opinions about you. You can Google your name and get a negative opinion about you on the first page.
So when I asked Lefebvre about how he and the Fox Sports team felt about their more adventurous use of advanced statistics lately, the first thing he mentioned was criticism, and then a response to that criticism.
“I am not anti-statistic,” said Lefebvre.
The optics of how some fans arrived on that opinion, though, are reasonable.