Steelers' 2 point Conversion Strategy

[links18]

In the scale of football stupidity, how bad was the Steelers' 2 point conversion strategy today?

 

[guag]

hahahahahaha

 

[robbieruff]

In the scale of football stupidity, how bad was the Steelers' 2 point conversion strategy today?

i think you could argue that it's a fireable offense...seriously.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

I felt like they were kind of throwing it in the Cowboys face to begin with by going for two. I think they thought they were going to score at will during the course of the game and they only ended up chasing those points all night long.

 

[MRV52]

Tomlin is quite the gunslinger.

 

[jrumann59]

In the scale of football stupidity, how bad was the Steelers' 2 point conversion strategy today?

its akin to a guy at a blackjack table that keeps forking money over thinking the shoe will flip soon.

 

[LittleLexodus]

I don't get the first one. I understand the second one (to make up for the initial conversion failure). I think it then pretty much snowballed.

 

[drawandstrike]

They tried for 2 pt conversions 4 times. That's 4 points they left off the board by doing that. Had they converted on just 2 of them, they'd have gotten the 4 points back. But they didn't.

Huge that our D didn't let them convert a single 2 pt attempt. Also holding them to 3 FG attempts was huge. They made 2 FG's and missed 1. If Pitt had scored on a single 1 of those 2 pt attempts and scored a TD instead of being held to a FG on just 1 of those 3 FG attempts, that's a 6 point difference.

We won by 5.

 

[Kevinicus]

In the scale of football stupidity, how bad was the Steelers' 2 point conversion strategy today?

It's not a new strategy for them.

 

[links18]

It's not a new strategy for them.

How often does it pan out for them?

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Arrogance.

 

[Kevinicus]

How often does it pan out for them?

No idea.

 

[Sepia]

I felt like they were kind of throwing it in the Cowboys face to begin with by going for two. I think they thought they were going to score at will during the course of the game and they only ended up chasing those points all night long.

I remember in the offseason, Ben said something about going for 2 every time. I didn't think they would actually do it!

 

[viman96]

I thought it was great

 

[Maxmadden]

It's not a new strategy for them.

At 4 and 5 , maybe they should consider a new strategy.

 

[links18]

Arrogance.

Was it or is there some kind of statistical strategy being played there?

 

[ElGatoGrande]

The way teams are starting to hop over the center these days everybody might start going for two more often.

 

[CaptainCowboy12]

How often does it pan out for them?

They stated when they set up for the first attempt that they were two for two on the season. Now they are two for six.

 

[JD_KaPow]

They've been doing this since the new XP rule last year. The math is pretty straightforward. the XP is about a 94% proposition. If you think your odds are significantly better than 47% of making the 2-pointer, you should do it (ignoring late-game game-score-based decisions). If you don't, you should kick the XP.

The Steelers were much much better than 50% when they tried it last year. They bought themselves a lot of points that way. We should be praising the Dallas D for stopping the Steelers at something they're good at, not laughing at them for a "dumb" strategy.

I'm surprised more teams don't go for 2 more often. (Ha! I'm not really surprised. Nobody is more conservative than NFL coaches).

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Was it or is there some kind of statistical strategy being played there?

If that was true, everybody would do it. Truth be told, going for 2 is rare and usually unnecessary.