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Yeah, we were discussing realingment the other day. Joel Send a noteboard - 25/12/2010 01:36:44 PM
Frankly, I'm tired of all the folks greeting Christmas with "bah, humbug!" We get it, you're misanthropic SOBs; I'll talk to you after New Years, OK? Also, I'm too drunk to respond to your football post right now, but consider this a Christmas present (it was certainly one of the best things I ever found under my tree, and you can get it cheap on Amazon, IIRC, which I'm sure Ben would appreciate):

"The Hidden Game of Football"


Did I make a football post? Anyway, I was given that book by my godfather one year, and more than any other single book, it has been the greatest factor in my development as a fan. I still recall their argument in favor of going for it on fourth down in goal line situations - "If your defense can't stop the other team from going 99 yards up the field, 3 points are not going to do you much good anyway." I also recall the way they broke down the passer rating system to clarify how it is formulated, among other things.

I started to respond the other night, but by the time I was three paragraphs in I was too inebriated for thorough point by point analysis, so I just got drunk and finished watching Superman instead. Don't worry, I WILL get back to you....

That book is, as the kids say, made of win. I think the League goes out of its way to make the PRS as mystical as possible, but thanks to that one book you can it takes a couple minutes to approximate passer ratings to one decimal IN YOUR HEAD (or precisely if you use a calculator/pencil). There are so many counterintuitive but eminently logical statements in those pages, and they make their points with such excellent humor that even after practically memorizing it I still read it from time to time for fun. Plus I was able to come up with a PRS of my own that factors in things like rushing ability and tendency to cough up the ball (really, if a pick 40 yards downfield is a 100 point penalty, shouldn't a fumble behind the LoS cost more? That's 2+ potential points worth of difference!) It's very interesting to me how coaches started going for it on fourth and short a lot more, offensive linemen started making decent money (well, tackles anyway) and fantasy football exploded on the scene all in the wake of that book. I still feel awful when I see a team lose a game because of a fluke PAT that wasn't good (like the 'Skins did against the Bucs two weeks ago; they have NO luck with PATs). People tell me how Montana and Elway were the best QBs EVAH111, then I point out that in his ten year career Otto Graham was 7-3 in Championships and they shut their punk mouths.
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