Posted on 01/24/2015 1:08:10 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
...One can clearly see the Patriots, visually, are off the chart. There is no other team even close to being near to their rate of 187 offensive plays per fumble lost. The league average is 105 plays per fumble lost. Most teams are within 21 plays of that number.
I spoke with a data scientist whom I know from work on NFLproject.com and sent him the data. He said:
Based on the assumption that fumbles per play follow a normal distribution, you’d expect to see, according to random fluctuation, the results that the Patriots have gotten over this period, once in 16,233.77 instances.
Which in layman’s terms means that this result only being a coincidence, is like winning a raffle where you have a 0.0000616 probability to win.
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NFL in ANY game is like 85 car accidents in an hour...there is NOTHING that will help you hold on to the ball when you don’t actively protect it. This is another hopeful angle by the Pats haters.
Cheating like the Patriots have done with deflated balls will help, a lot!
No matter what your mind is made up on that...so be it. I just get a kick out of the gyrations by those who wish their demise.
Clever line...wasn’t it?
Im more old school anyway...give me the NFL of the 80’s and 70’s when it was a lot more gritty...
The remarkable thing for the upcoming next season? Some idiot standing there with the ref’s and continually measuring the air pressure of balls. Air Ref. Imagine making $50,000 a year and your only function is to stand there for two hours and continually measure ball pressure, with free laundry, free parking at the game, and a great viewpoint to watch the game being played.
You can prevent a fumble by getting the officials to reverse it by invoking the Tuck Rule. It’s been done before.
So, if deflated footballs are so advantageous to the offense, how come it took 75 years until the first NFL team complained about it?
Everyone was obeying the rules?
Yeah, right.
And, before each play, at least one referee touches the ball. So, until this game, not one ref gripped a deflated ball for 75 years.
Yeah, right.
What rules? The punishment is for the ref to replace the deflated ball and report the incident to the commissioner.
Isn't this a bit like throwing a spitball or corking a bat? (if there has been a misdeed)
I came up with an idea...
If there are teams out there and their balls are deflated...
I’m developing this new product called...
Viagra-air, tm
For when the time is right
Re: “Isn’t this a bit like throwing a spitball or corking a bat?”
Exactly like that - except baseball players have been doing that for at least 100 years.
My point - if a deflated ball really does help the offense, how come the team on defense is not constantly asking the ref to check the pressure?
And, from personal experience, I think it’s much harder to throw a tight spiral with a deflated ball, but catching it might be easier.
And you would likewise expect a perennial Super Bowl contender to have a low fumbles per game ratio.
...and 70’s when it was a lot more gritty...
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I recall Conrad Dobler of the SL Cardinals being called the dirtiest NFL player in the ‘70s because of his reputation of biting opposing players.
Roger Goodell makes I think about $40 million per year running the NFL. Almost daily we see the results of his leadership failures with politically correct promotions and nonsense like pink attire, Super Bowl halftimes featuring lefty singers, banning Rush Limbaugh from having ownership, and the list goes on. When is this guy accountable for anything?
I was talking more of the hard play of the gam, not animal like behavior! No Mike Tyson bites now!!
Yeah, if the ball is too deflated, throwing a spiral is harder.
But we’re not talking about too deflated here.
From my understanding most QBs like it on the softer side; some, on the fuller side.
The QBs probably regularly try to get slightly under-inflated balls through, and the refs may be used to them being used. But that’s different than a team deflating them after they’ve been checked and held by the refs.
If the Pats ball boys have been deflating them on the elevator ride from the refs’ office to the field in Foxboro, there supposedly should be video of that. Yeah, Tom Brady would have known about that and that the NFL had confiscated the security video from the elevator. So presumably that either didn’t happen or, quite unlikely, they knew the ball boy would be caught—and would take the fall for Tom.
If they can’t come up with any hard evidence, they may just bury the issue with a combination of Tom choosing slightly underinflated balls to submit to the refs and the cool and wet conditions during the game.
Unwarranted assumption alert...
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