bbgun;1288639 said:
Romo had a two-year head start, a ton of pre-season snaps, some limited playing time before the Giants game, and a healthy, dynamic receiving corps at his service. When are you going to concede that the deck was stacked in his favor?
When did I say it wasn't? Romo should have played better than Campbell, and he most certainly did. But he also played better than he should have, given his lack of experience. He played well enough to be among the league leaders in quite a few categories, to lead his team into the playoffs and to be selected to the Pro Bowl by the coaches and the players.
How 'bout never? If there's one thing I hate, it's a rotisserie geek.
The stats I post have nothing to do with fantasy football. I really could care less about fantasy stats. The stats I have posted, and those that I will post, are the same ones that a lot of NFL teams pay to receive.
Here's part of an article from the Wall Street Journal that you might want to read. (Actually, you won't want to read it, because it makes you look foolish) --
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Football Fans Likely Don't Know League's Most-Coveted Stats
By CARL BIALIK
Wall Street Journal
February 4, 2005
National Football League teams love numbers.
The teams have moved well beyond traditional statistics like yards gained and passes completed, and now track a dizzying array of metrics aimed at evaluating their players' performances with mathematical precision. The two Super Bowl teams are at the vanguard of this stats revolution.
Yet fans don't have broad access to the newer numbers now being recorded -- like number of tackles fought off by ball carriers, or how often the quarterback is knocked down after releasing the ball.
Did you know that rookie running back Mewelde Moore of the Minnesota Vikings, who gained just 379 yards this year (top backs gain at least 1,000 yards, at least by traditional accounting), led the league in percentage of plays in which he broke free from a would-be tackler, with 23%? That means he was remarkably elusive at dodging tackles. (The league's two leading backs by yardage, Curtis Martin and Shaun Alexander, broke tackles on just 4% and 5.6% of plays, respectively.) Or did you know that among wide receivers with at least 50 catches, Minnesota's Nate Burleson gained the most yards per catch after receiving the ball (6.71 yards per catch)?
These stats, from News Corp.'s Stats Inc., start with game logs kept by "reporters" -- football fans paid $45 a game to analyze tapes of games. Three reporters log every play for each game, recording advanced stats like how many yards a receiver gains after making the catch, and how many balls are underthrown and overthrown to intended receivers. Those logs are reconciled in the company's Morton Grove, Ill., offices and then converted into what the company calls X-Info -- measurements that go beyond the box score.
About half of all clubs buy the data. (Closely held Elias Sports Bureau, the league's official statistician, also collects some similar data but declined to discuss details.) Neither Stats nor Elias makes esoteric stats available publicly; both sell some stats to TV broadcasters.
Clubs use the data to value their own players, to scout opponents and to help make decisions on trades. But teams are highly secretive about how they use the numbers. The New York Giants, for example, justified a controversial mid-season quarterback change in a New York Times Magazine article by explaining that the benched QB, Kurt Warner, held the ball after the snap for much longer than average. We can't know just how pervasive such measurements are in the secretive NFL; the Giants wouldn't comment for this article. A spokesman said, "We're really not interested in publicizing what numbers we study to evaluate players."
The New England Patriots have the reputation as one of the most statistically minded franchises, but they, too, declined to comment. Jeffrey Lurie, owner of the Patriots' Super Bowl opponent, the Philadelphia Eagles, granted an interview but apologetically declined to get into details of how his club uses stats. "It's awfully hard to get anyone to talk about it because we don't want to reveal competitive strategies," he says.
This all stands in stark contrast to baseball, where fans with a mathematical bent sparked a reformation in how to value players. As chronicled last year in the Michael Lewis bestseller "Moneyball," over the last 30 years advanced stats spread from mimeographed newsletters to baseball front offices, where a few smart general managers embraced them and used them to get more bang for their buck in player acquisition.
In football, though, the teams have driven most of the improvements. Kansas City Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil, a stats guru, suggests new numbers for Stats Inc. to track, says Pete Moris, who helps manage advanced stats for the team. The league's salary cap equalizes teams' budgets, which has made factors like statistical analysis more important for teams' fortunes.
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Have you ever listened to Bill Parcells' press conferences when he provides some obscure statistic about winning percentages or rushing or turnovers or whatnot? He doesn't know those stats because he's playing fantasy football.
So feel free to wallow in ignorance, Your Majesty, while I provide the others with information that NFL teams feel is important and helps them win.
Yes he does have something special the great ones have. A QB rating of 77 in December, 6-8 TD/INT ratio with a total of 9 fumbles.
...this is basically what you are stating...
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