fanfromvirginia
Inconceivable!
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At the beginning of the season, I came up with an idea for a new stat, which I'm calling the Stupid Mistake rating. The formula is giveaways x 6 + # of penalties.
I've adjusted the ratings for every team based on last week's games. We tied our worst score of the year against GB with 28 (3 TOs and 10 penalties). We also had 28 points against the NYG. This brought our overall average up to 17.22, which is 21st in the league. We're second to last in penalties (ahead of only GB). We're about average in giveaways. Overall, we were dead last in the league in 2008 using this rating so we've gotten better.
League best (Indianapolis): 11.78
League worst (Carolina): 22.89
League average: 16.35
Cowboys 2009: 17.22
You can see the link below for this rating but, in short, it's not designed to explain why we're losing; its only purpose is to be an easy way to keep track of and compare our stupid mistakes over time and against other teams. It is NOT ideal -- it is designed to be easy to compute and compare so it leaves out all sorts of helpful detail that would be very hard to keep track of league-wide (e.g., calling a timeout to avoid a delay of game penalty or, say, calling two fade routes in a row on 2nd and goal from the one yard line on a night you're averaging 8 yards per rush
).
(For details see http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161334)
I've adjusted the ratings for every team based on last week's games. We tied our worst score of the year against GB with 28 (3 TOs and 10 penalties). We also had 28 points against the NYG. This brought our overall average up to 17.22, which is 21st in the league. We're second to last in penalties (ahead of only GB). We're about average in giveaways. Overall, we were dead last in the league in 2008 using this rating so we've gotten better.
League best (Indianapolis): 11.78
League worst (Carolina): 22.89
League average: 16.35
Cowboys 2009: 17.22
You can see the link below for this rating but, in short, it's not designed to explain why we're losing; its only purpose is to be an easy way to keep track of and compare our stupid mistakes over time and against other teams. It is NOT ideal -- it is designed to be easy to compute and compare so it leaves out all sorts of helpful detail that would be very hard to keep track of league-wide (e.g., calling a timeout to avoid a delay of game penalty or, say, calling two fade routes in a row on 2nd and goal from the one yard line on a night you're averaging 8 yards per rush
). (For details see http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161334)