If you had to make a basketball team consisting of all players of one height, what's the optimal height?
We discussed this a bit in https://www.patreon.com/posts/62933244, in response to Scott Alexander saying that more height is basically always better and a 7' team would beat a 6'6" team (certainly not true at the time in 2015 and probably still not true now).
But what's the optimal height? Just off the top of my head, in 2015, there would've been a strong all-time case for 6'6". But tall
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