Dedicated to reporting mainstream and esoteric aspects of football. Football is art. I like the numbers and love to count things. But I love the art more.
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One of Night Train Lane's 14 INTs in 1952
Lane playing off ... zone, Ram rush 4 ... more modern of a defense than most might have thought
LA vs Pitt
Bonus, seagull flies through the frame. I think he was open.
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"The math checks out; that little💩is the all-time career passing leader."
Sell the bit ... and 10 years before the Boss pulled Courtney Cox from the audience, the Spinners were doing it
Commitment all teh way to the rubber band dance ...
Red—if the jar is *actually* 51-49. One draw doesn’t change the higher-probability choice.
The issue is whether the model’s 51 is real. There is math behind that.
Expected-points models have documented problems. Brill, Yee, Deshpande & Wyner (2024)—statisticians at Wharton and Wisconsin—showed they suffer from selection bias, overfitting, no uncertainty quantification, and ignoring that plays within a drive aren’t independent, so a small reported edge can be noise.
Szymanski (2020), a sports economist at Michigan, argued that outside baseball much of the field still looks like alchemy: opaque and short on rigorous evidence. Faraway (2017), a statistician, noted the zero-sum reality—any edge is eventually competed away.
When the number is 98%, those issues usually don’t matter.
At 51%, they do.
Shanahan’s hesitation isn’t just “I only get one shot.” It’s that the jar the analytics department is handing him may not be the one they claim.
Extremes in anything are usually off. Middle ground exists in this life -- analytics Math™ may not be the kind of applied math that builds bridges or gets crafts to the moon.
Trick question -- does card counting work, give player advantage over the house, and by making more money than otherwise playing?
Brock Purdy not just has a the highest passer rating, but high yards-per-attempt and adjacent stats
link
pro-football-reference.com/p…
My work-in-progress formula does things on a per/game basis plus a TD percentage, 4 categories, scored to 100 being the highest.
Could use work, but that 20% is 20% of the formula ... Hutson still on top
Yes, I know, it's flawed; yes I know Rice is not #1 -- he would be but his last few years dragged his per-game averages lower.
And yes, I know, many people could do better. I wish they would!
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