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Remember back in the early days of the Mort-fueled Deflategate-frenzy, when people were saying that "deflated" balls accounted for the Pats low turnover rates?
Well...that turns out to have been another ginormous "oops" on the point of the Hater media. SI's MMQB posted this a little while ago.
If there's already been a thread on it, I missed it, so please accept my apologies for repeating it. Mods, please merge.
"So what happened in 2015?
• The Patriots had the fewest fumbles of any NFL offense.
• The Patriots had the best fumble rate of any NFL offense.
• The Patriots had one of their best fumble rates of the past decade.
....
A link between low football PSI's and high fumble rates was never established by anyone, so a check of the 2015 data shouldn’t mean much as far as the likelihood of the Patriots cheating. But the information provides a nice confirmation to what Gregory Matthews and I wrote back in January: Statistics is hard, and this can lead to deception, either willful or otherwise."
After Deflategate, Patriots still lead NFL with fewest fumbles | The MMQB with Peter King
Well...that turns out to have been another ginormous "oops" on the point of the Hater media. SI's MMQB posted this a little while ago.
If there's already been a thread on it, I missed it, so please accept my apologies for repeating it. Mods, please merge.
"So what happened in 2015?
• The Patriots had the fewest fumbles of any NFL offense.
• The Patriots had the best fumble rate of any NFL offense.
• The Patriots had one of their best fumble rates of the past decade.
....
A link between low football PSI's and high fumble rates was never established by anyone, so a check of the 2015 data shouldn’t mean much as far as the likelihood of the Patriots cheating. But the information provides a nice confirmation to what Gregory Matthews and I wrote back in January: Statistics is hard, and this can lead to deception, either willful or otherwise."
After Deflategate, Patriots still lead NFL with fewest fumbles | The MMQB with Peter King
