lamafist
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Man, some of y'all should consider switching to decaf.
There really is nothing at all in this article that should get your blood up, if you don't go in looking for any possible hint of a slight or disparagement.
FootballOutsider's basic mission is bring some logic and reason to football discourse, by cautiously and rigorously applying their advanced metrics to the unsupported claims and assumptions spouted by fans and lazy commentators. The original FO essay was about the common misinterpretation of a strong correlation between a team's rushing totals, and whether that team wins, demonstrating how teams aren't wining because they're running, they're running because they're winning.
This article is essentially doing the same exploration of common assertion by a QB's "haters" that his stats only look so good because he's running up the score in blowouts. It points out that a) Brady's 1st-half stats are equally as impressive vis a vis his competition and b) that Brady hasn't made significantly more pass attempts in blowout situations than the average NFL QB. He's just more often on the fun side of a blowout situation, and in this season, there aren't really any other winning teams that have had all that many blowouts to play in.
This particular article was probably a poor fit for ESPN. In the context of FO's own site, most readers would know that chiding a team for "running up the score" is kind of outside FO's purview -- they don't care whether teams do it or not, they're just interested in figuring out how to adjust for how teams play differently in those situations in their statistical analysis. Mostly, though, it was a poor fit because it doesn't end up really telling us anything about Brady so much as it does about the dispersement of blowouts in this football season.
Oh, and incidentally -- unlike in traditional media, FO's are upfront about their team allegiances, and not asked to make any pretense of objectivity. Bill Barnwell happens to be a big Pats fan, and one of the original contributors to PatriotsDaily.com.
There really is nothing at all in this article that should get your blood up, if you don't go in looking for any possible hint of a slight or disparagement.
FootballOutsider's basic mission is bring some logic and reason to football discourse, by cautiously and rigorously applying their advanced metrics to the unsupported claims and assumptions spouted by fans and lazy commentators. The original FO essay was about the common misinterpretation of a strong correlation between a team's rushing totals, and whether that team wins, demonstrating how teams aren't wining because they're running, they're running because they're winning.
This article is essentially doing the same exploration of common assertion by a QB's "haters" that his stats only look so good because he's running up the score in blowouts. It points out that a) Brady's 1st-half stats are equally as impressive vis a vis his competition and b) that Brady hasn't made significantly more pass attempts in blowout situations than the average NFL QB. He's just more often on the fun side of a blowout situation, and in this season, there aren't really any other winning teams that have had all that many blowouts to play in.
This particular article was probably a poor fit for ESPN. In the context of FO's own site, most readers would know that chiding a team for "running up the score" is kind of outside FO's purview -- they don't care whether teams do it or not, they're just interested in figuring out how to adjust for how teams play differently in those situations in their statistical analysis. Mostly, though, it was a poor fit because it doesn't end up really telling us anything about Brady so much as it does about the dispersement of blowouts in this football season.
Oh, and incidentally -- unlike in traditional media, FO's are upfront about their team allegiances, and not asked to make any pretense of objectivity. Bill Barnwell happens to be a big Pats fan, and one of the original contributors to PatriotsDaily.com.