timdunkandthefunk
Rusty Larue
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He only uses the number two.
Exactly. PFF is pretty far from #advancedstats and #kenpom and #millennialbullshit
Football player evaluation has relied upon bullshit worthless opinions for a century.
They assign arbitrary numbers to qualitative observations. Their opinion is no better or worse than anyone else's. They then tabulate their fabricated stats in an attempt to make them look scientific when the underlying measurements are really just bullshit worthless opinions.
This is great.
Are all stats arbitrary numbers for qualitative observations?
I would hope not. How many yards a RB runs for, how many TDs and yards a QB throws for, how many receptions a WR has, are not arbitrary, they are measured. Assigning a QB a -2 for throwing an INT off his back foot or giving a OL a +3 for a pancake are arbitrary numbers for qualitative observations.
But that's bullshit, the QB's job is to provide a ball that the WR can catch. If he drops it, that is partly on the QB, for a myriad of potential reasons. The fact is that it was an incompletion and should be treated as such. If Cam throws a catchable pass to Ginn that Ginn drops, that should be partly on Cam for throwing it to Ginn in the first place knowing that he is likely to drop it. You are arbitrarily giving a positive to the QB for something that may very well just have been a negative, because you are assuming that the fault is all on the WR.
How much fault for ODB's drop against the Panthers goes to ELIte?
How much fault for ODB's drop against the Panthers goes to ELIte?
Do they not teach an introduction to statistics course at Wake?
2&2's #hottakes continue to amaze.
Not much, because ODB usually makes that catch, so it is a smart throw by ELIte. If that was Ginn dropping it, it would have been more ELIte's fault because he knows there is about a 40% chance he drops it when he throws it.