IN PRAISE OF EFFICIENCY. OR NOT.

Hmmm….statistics. Maybe if statisticians weren’t busy following boring sports like baseball we’d have some more quality football stats. The difference in quality and quantity of stats you can get from one sport to another is glaring.

Sample size is a problem. 162 games versus 12 in a season means your numbers will mean far less, and have far more potential variance.

In football, it’s very possible for a very talented team (see LSU 06) to lose two games. If they played 162 games, there’s no way LSU wouldn’t have been in the title game last year.

It’s not as stupid as 6-sigma, which is the 0.00034% rule.

Orson, with a liberal arts education, how do you know about all this engineering stuff? You make physics references all the time and now six-sigma. Must be hanging out with Tech grads.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t one of Orson’s degrees from Tech? I didn’t realize he did have a liberal arts education…

Oh, and Alabama/Auburn threadjack, courtesy of Deadspin:
deadspin.com/sports/building-dreams=252C-one-luxury-condo-at-a-time/youre-doin-a-heckuva-job-bama-289144.php

I have a similar rule. Except it’s called the 12-INCH rule, and your mom knows about it.

“It’s Six Sigma for the shoulder pads set.”

Six Sigma? Isn’t that the special kind of G.I. Joe?

I’m pretty sure a team’s YAC average closely correlates with W-L record.

Just kidding. It’s really VORT (Value Over Replacement Team) that best reflects the W-L. For instance, Florida’s was 7.34 a year ago, and no team has won a title with a VORT below 7.0. Am I making this up? Probably.

Fucking econometrics. That prof was a C-bag.

However, this rule is kinda ghey…I mean obviously you’re probably going to win most times as long as you don’t make too many mistakes. Ralph Friegen must live in Obvioustown on No Shit Street.

Six Sigma: and excellent process to develop efficiencies and transform normal people into arrogant pricks.

Biggus, you missed a golden opportunity there… the stat should have been JORT

Peter, that’s why I don’t have a funny blog.

edsbs…..cheesecake, bunda, mustaches, ncaa football, all other sorts of funny shit, and math????

i’ll keep checking back until the next post is up.

I come here for a good laugh and what do I get? I get Isaac Newton’s principles of conservation of momentum and G.I. Joe Sigma Six references.

What the fuck?

That picture makes Pete a sad panda.

Actually, according to my father after 13 beers, the key to winning is the result of not having a bunch of girl scouts and/or cocksuckers on defense.

Steve Slaton just scored another touchdown on Maryland. A 96-yard run where he broke 15 tackles. I know, crazy, but that just happened.

Because that what Maryland does! Crab cakes and Football!

I don’t think Ian has recovered fully yet from the giftwrapping Virginia did for Maryland last year, propelling Under Armour U to nine wins and cooling the Fridge’s seat.

Amazingly enough, ness, those are also Ralph Friedgen’s two loves. In that order too.

Friedgen’s totally pulling that ‘rule’ out of his sweaty blunderbuss. His real strategy has more to do with defending some kind of homestead.

I wouldn’t call it Six Sigma for the shoulder pads set; but you’d be literally right one with Two Sigma. 95% of all data are within two standard deviations in approximately normal distribution. But as you mentioned, the sample size hurts here.

That said, SYRACUSE was in the top 10 for turnover margin???? That confuses me more than Maryland winning 9 games last year.

When asked what he thought about the rule, Steve Spurrier replied “Click, Clack.”

You know what else wins a lot of games?
Officiating.

I only hope that there are some Twerp fans on EDSBS, because they can lament with me on the sheer God-awfulness that was the Clemson/Maryland game from last year, and the 2004 Clemson/Maryland “tilt.”

Both games were just painful to watch, we split those two and won the ’05 version, and in both contests I was just waiting for the end so that I could drink some more.

I blame the 12PM ESPN curse. If it is the 12PM JP game, we get ready for that shit, as does everyone else in the conference.

Conversely, this is how Maryland got their 9 last year, beating us in a horrible, horrible, game.

Yes Maryland did win 9 games last year. I watched nearly every game and I still don’t know how.

It’s good to be back in time for football season!

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That was Conference USA officiatiing, for what it’s worth. You haven’t seen bad officiating until you’ve been served by Jack Fucking Childress.

My only cognizant memory of Maryland football is just before the 2001 Orange Bowl against UF.

The announcers were just getting warmed up for the opening kickoff when, clear as a bell, their mic picked up, “F%CK THE GAY GATORS!!!”

Every single person in the room with me stopped what they were doing, looked around sheepishly and the air became littered with, “Huh? What the f%ck? Did you hear that? Who was that guy? How did that make it on-air?”

Pretty zany stuff. The rest of the game was pretty boring as Grossman came off the bench (curfew punishment?) and lit them up for six or so straight touchdown drives.

Jack Childress is dumber than a box of hair and about as useful as tits on a bull.

I hate, oh how I hate, that POS SOB.

I am convinced he has naked pictures of John Swofford with a 12 year old boy.

#21, the answer to Syracuse’s turnover margin lies in a spectacularly shitty offense. If you go three and out on almost every series, there’s very little time for you to actually turn the ball over, and lots of time for your defense to pick up turnovers.

15 – I’m still laughing, dude. Funny comment.

I go to maryland and even I don’t know how we won all those games. I remember leaving the games vs. some directional school in TN and FIU thinking about how long the year was going to be and then having this feeling reinforced at the WVU games. then we won nine games by an average of like, 3 points. we rule.

IIRC, Miami had the best turnover margin in the country during our dream season in 2003.

And since the plural of anecdote is data…