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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.
This week the Cowboys had 2 giveaways and 7 penalties for a rating of 19. This brings their 4-game average to 15.0, which is basically equally to last year's median, which makes sense as we're 2-2. As bad as this week was, it was actually a little better than our average rating last year. That probably says more about last year than last night.
League best 2008 (the Patriots): 9.0
League median 2008: 15.1
Cowboys 2008 (league worst): 20.0
Cowboys 2009: 15.0
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
).
When we've got more games under our belt, I'll compute this year's median averages for the rest of the league.
(For details see http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161334)
This week the Cowboys had 2 giveaways and 7 penalties for a rating of 19. This brings their 4-game average to 15.0, which is basically equally to last year's median, which makes sense as we're 2-2. As bad as this week was, it was actually a little better than our average rating last year. That probably says more about last year than last night.
League best 2008 (the Patriots): 9.0
League median 2008: 15.1
Cowboys 2008 (league worst): 20.0
Cowboys 2009: 15.0
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
). When we've got more games under our belt, I'll compute this year's median averages for the rest of the league.
(For details see http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161334)