Why is no one talking about the gauges or the measurements after the game?

[RunAmok]

So, I've gone over the report a few times and besides what others have pointed out.

• First of all why are the refs using $25 cheap and beat-up gauges in the AFC championship games? Sorta tells me how important PSI is to the NFL.
• One gauge, the one with the Wilson logo, always measure the balls at a higher psi as opposed to the non-logo one but that data is discarded or minimized.
• When Exponent did the testing they only used the model that produced the lower numbers (supplied by Wells law firm) but claimed they could not find other copies to the logo version. This means their testing was only done with the model that seems to under-report PSI.
• The claim that they could not find any models of the non-logo version is BS. A quick search shows them available from several on-line vendors (note - they appear to be manufactured by Select Sport - a Danish company). The version that they did use is clearly a generic model designed for companies, like Wilson, to slap their own logo on

Also, buried in the fine print of a footnote is the fact that 4 balls from each team were measured after the game but the results are excluded for dubious reasons. they claim that since they could not be sure that the same 4 Colt balls were tested at both halftime and the end, all the data is discarded. I think it would have been very interesting to see what happen to the Pats balls that were reset to 12.5 at halftime. If at the end of the game, they lost the same PSI as they did during the first half, this whole report would go down in flames.

1 Based on information from Paul, Weiss, we understand that shortly after the end of the AFC Championship Game, four Patriots footballs and four Colts footballs were also measured by the two game officials who had conducted the halftime tests, using the same two gauges used at halftime. Although we understand that these measurements were also recorded in writing, information concerning the timing of these measurements, the pressure levels at which these eight footballs started the second half and the identity of the four Colts footballs tested after the game (specifically, whether they were the same footballs that had been tested at halftime) was significantly less certain, especially as compared with the information about similar issues concerning the pre-game period. As a result, we did not believe that the post-game measurements provided a scientifically reasonable basis on which to conduct further analysis.

 

[phil112]

Plenty of people talking about it.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...best-recollection-on-a-key-piece-of-evidence/