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

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Q: What do you call a consistent outlier?

A: Cheating.

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Or you can realize fumbles lost is not a good measure. He also looked at actual fumble rates, but conveniently miscalculated the rates, then took out teams that played in domes (rather than accounting for them in his model; it's a missing data bias). Plus the sample is too small to really make any definitive interpretations. Basically it's a crap analysis and article.