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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 1 giveaway and 8 penalties for a rating of 14. This drops their 6-game average to 16.5. This is below average but not terrible. Yesterday's performance was a bit of a wash -- one giveaway is good but 8 penalties is quite bad. Last year we averaged 2.1 giveaways/game (2nd worst in the league) and about 7.5 penalties/game (worst in the league). This year an interesting story is beginning to unfold: we're still quite bad at penalties but only below average at turnovers. Our giveaways this year have been 0, 4, 0, 2, 2, and 1 for a 1.5 average, which is not awful. Not counting the Giants game, we're averaging just 1 giveaway per game, which is quite good. Of course the Giants game counts; it will be telling to keep an eye on this as a few more games with relatively few giveaways might indicate that the Giants turnover disaster really was an anomaly.
Note to those who have been following my weekly updates: no, I haven't yet compiled the 2009 info yet. I really, really, really am going to get to that soon. Promise. And to repeat myself because I get this every week: this stat is very easy to keep track of. I have no interest in doing the work that would be required to make it more accurately and completely reflect stupidity.
League best 2008 (the Patriots): 9.0
League median 2008: 15.1
Cowboys 2008 (league worst): 20.0
Cowboys 2009: 16.5
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)
This week the Cowboys had 1 giveaway and 8 penalties for a rating of 14. This drops their 6-game average to 16.5. This is below average but not terrible. Yesterday's performance was a bit of a wash -- one giveaway is good but 8 penalties is quite bad. Last year we averaged 2.1 giveaways/game (2nd worst in the league) and about 7.5 penalties/game (worst in the league). This year an interesting story is beginning to unfold: we're still quite bad at penalties but only below average at turnovers. Our giveaways this year have been 0, 4, 0, 2, 2, and 1 for a 1.5 average, which is not awful. Not counting the Giants game, we're averaging just 1 giveaway per game, which is quite good. Of course the Giants game counts; it will be telling to keep an eye on this as a few more games with relatively few giveaways might indicate that the Giants turnover disaster really was an anomaly.
Note to those who have been following my weekly updates: no, I haven't yet compiled the 2009 info yet. I really, really, really am going to get to that soon. Promise. And to repeat myself because I get this every week: this stat is very easy to keep track of. I have no interest in doing the work that would be required to make it more accurately and completely reflect stupidity.
League best 2008 (the Patriots): 9.0
League median 2008: 15.1
Cowboys 2008 (league worst): 20.0
Cowboys 2009: 16.5
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)