re: Deflated: the Statistically Impossible Patriots Fumble Record; cheating proved?

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Wasn't LeGarrette Blount a notorious fumbler before joining the Patriots?

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Blount's fumbling rates per carries + receptions:

Tampa Bay: 2.0%

Pittsburg: 1.4%

New England : 1.4%

explain Ridley's fumbling issues

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That being said, the hackish article from the OP is so so logically, statistically, and factually flawed that it has no practical relevance to deflategate.

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I am reading through some of these rebuttal articles that supposedly debunk the OP... and I'm generally not impressed.

I can go into reasons the rebuttals are not impressive... e.g. the one by the Patriots fan who suggested that a "one season rolling average" (no such meaningful thing) would be as meaningful as a five year average... but you wouldn't read or comprehend them, anyway, so what's the point? You'd only continue to call me a troll despite the many points I've made across all these boards.

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the one by the Patriots fan who suggested that a "one season rolling average" (no such meaningful thing) would be as meaningful as a five year average.

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He didn't advocate for a "one season rolling average" he is saying that there are meaningful patterns across seasons. Given the didferences between a team from year to year (personnel, coaches, injuries), let alone across five years, aggregating data hides meaningful variation. One of the major advantages of repeated measures studies is that it has more statistical power and can more accurately tease out trends and relationships. So given the small sample size, year to year variation, and advantages of repeated measures, it is patently false to say that the 5 year average is just as meaningful.

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A deeper dive in the stats to debunk aside, the whole premise is absurd. They've been cheating for ~5 years, just never been caught until now? Ridiculous.

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To add to that, it assumes other teams either weren't aware of this advantage or didn't attempt it because they had more integrity. Even then, if it was some clear advantage, but they didn't want to cheat, wouldn't they deflate balls to the legal minimum to at least get some of that amazing advantage?

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Not neccesarily. Maybe Tom Brady is an exception in that he likes or tolerates a deflated ball where as most quarterbacks are a limiting factor to the fumbling advantage.

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Well the QB only accounts for a small portion of fumbles so it would have to benefit other Pats players to be as significant as this poor analysis states. And if it just happens to help all of those Patriots players, well it should help many other players around the NFL, QB or otherwise.

I am done fighting this nonsense but this 'theory' has been widely and vastly debunked by a broad spectrum of analysts - let Google be your friend.

Besides that, I want to taste the sweet, sweet tears of the sore losers after the Pats castrate the Crotch Grabbers tomorrow.
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