Has the NFL lost the PR battle?

[PatsWickedPissah]

Read the article in its entirety. A great recap of the major scientific points.

 

[ThatllMoveTheChains!!!]

I think eventually the NFL is going to lose this one. There's a clear appearance of impropriety, anything involving the NFL gets views, and I think everyone in the Patriots' organization would be very helpful with anyone looking for the truth. How could there not be at least an in depth report or documentary on this?

 

[PatsFanSince74]

The PR battle isn't over yet. A Brady loss in court would change the numbers, for example.

No doubt. But the NFL has a lot more to lose than Brady. If public opinion is already (if fragilely) 2--1 against them, that number would firm up, but most importantly they risk that the issue will "cross over" from sports fans to a broader audience if Brady prevails. If Brady loses it sucks for him and the patriots, but the multi-billion dollar enterprise is untouched.

 

[Canuck]

An article in today's Financial Post (a Canadian bisiness newspaper) crushes the NFL on the science. Written by Steve McIntyre

http://business.financialpost.com/f...-science-could-have-wrongly-smeared-tom-brady

"Cheap pressure gauges – and confusion about basic science – could have wrongly smeared Tom Brady as an NFL cheat

Playing out on the sports pages this summer has been yet another example of distorted pseudo-science – the Deflategate scandal – an incident which, in my opinion, would not have been an issue without defective scientific and statistical analysis by Exponent, the NFL’s technical consultants, and defective peer review by Daniel Marlow of Princeton. The NFL’s suspension of Tom Brady is under appeal and a decision is expected on Sept. 4, but the appeal will not turn on the underlying science and statistics, but on procedural issues of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. But any fair-minded person ought to be repulsed (though perhaps not surprised) that the decision will rely in any way on pseudo science."....

Exponent said it best in their Executive Summary for the Wells Report "In sum, the data did not provide a basis for us to determine with absolute certainty whether there was or was not tampering as the analysis of such data ultimately is dependent upon assumptions and information that is not certain".

As we know the assumptions and information was provided by the NFL

In this article, the author made a bunch of assumptions that may or may not have happened and came up with results that could explain PSI differences. In this case he makes assumptions that he claims that both Exponent and Brady's side missed.