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Tell that to Saban, Belichick, Shanahan, McDaniel, Andy Reid. They have crunched the numbers and adapted their decision-making to give their teams a better chance to win games.

The guys thats entire lives revolve around making these decisions know how important any edge you can gain is.

I don't buy this at all. As I posted above, it's not a straightforward problem especially in rare situations like season ending decisions.

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Posted by Corinthians420

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Posted on 1/22/24 at 2:17 pm to Diseasefreeforall

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it's not a straightforward problem especially in rare situations like season ending decisions.

it is. Saban literally had a chart that he stuck to specifically to take emotion out of those decisions.

From the LSU 2022 game

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Saban had just answered a reporter’s question about Alabama’s decisions to twice attempt two-point conversions in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s loss in Baton Rouge. He punctuated his answer by reaching toward his back pocket and saying, “I got the chart right here, you want to see it?”

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Posted by TheSexecutioner

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Posted on 1/22/24 at 2:19 pm to Diseasefreeforall

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I don't buy this at all. As I posted above, it's not a straightforward problem especially in rare situations like season ending decisions.

Why does that matter? You are either trying to win the game or lose it. There are no partial losses. If you are trying to win the game, you make the binary decision that gives you the best chance of winning. In this case, it is going for it, and its by a large margin.

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