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re: Most Overrated Statistic in Sports?
Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:47 pm to Bunk Moreland
Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:47 pm to Bunk Moreland
quote:You mean the yardage record or the td record?
I think it's passing TDs. As long as your QB is efficient and moving the ball, who cares whether you get a one yard TD run or a one yard TD pass? And comparing the TDs to ints? Awful. It's why I always thought the Brees record was dumb.
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Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:51 pm to Melvin
penalty minutes in hockey
Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:55 pm to GynoSandberg
quote:
If YAC inflate QB's yardage, then receiving yards must be overrated too. What about the distance a pass traveled in the air before a WR catches it? A WR shouldn't get credit for a 20 yd TD they catch in the end zone?
QB yards and WR yards play off of each other. It's give and take
The receiver still has to run his route to catch the ball. If a QB throws a screen pass, the WR can go 80 yards and get a TD. As it is now, the QBS will get the same stats although he didn't do anything after he threw it.
If a WR runs a post and catches it 30 yards down the field and runs an extra 20 yards, the QBS will still get the extra 20 yards. The WR still had to run the run the route, catch the ball, and get the YAC, where the AN is done after he throws the 30 yard pass.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:56 pm to Rouge
quote:
penalty minutes in hockey
I'm always confused when people bring up someone's high penalty minutes like it's a good thing.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:57 pm to elprez00
quote:
Saves seems to be a popular answer. Why?
The entire late inning stategy in MLB has been centered around the save. It's become formulmatic. 9th inning with a 3 run or less lead bring in the "closer". Who is allegedly your best relief pitcher. In the 7th, you could have a critical situation where there is 1 out, runners on 1st and 3rd in a tie game or you lead by a run. Logic would dictate this is a good time to bring in the ace bull pen guy, but no, they keep him for the 9th and bring in some journeyman scrub or maybe a young guy to get the key outs. Then the "closer" comes in with no one on and a 3 run lead and gets a "save". Kind of like other guys do all the leg work getting the sale, but some guy comes in at the end and signs the papers, so he gets the sale. But hey, at least they get to play Enter Sandman by Metallica in the stadium when the closer comes in.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:58 pm to pvilleguru
quote:
The receiver still has to run his route to catch the ball. If a QB throws a screen pass, the WR can go 80 yards and get a TD. As it is now, the QBS will get the same stats although he didn't do anything after he threw it.
If a WR runs a post and catches it 30 yards down the field and runs an extra 20 yards, the QBS will still get the extra 20 yards. The WR still had to run the run the route, catch the ball, and get the YAC, where the AN is done after he throws the 30 yard pass
So?
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:00 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:
So?
It's the point of this thread. That QB passing yards are overrated.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:03 pm to pvilleguru
quote:
That QB passing yards are overrated.
So?
Seriously you are really reaching with that. How about when a WR drops one right in his hands or it bounces off of a WR and the QB gets an INT. It all washes out. Plus all the QB's get the same benefit so it does not warp anyone
This post was edited on 2/26/13 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:07 pm to teke184
RBI is much more relevant than Batting Average. Batting Average tells you virtually nothing. It's an awful stat.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:08 pm to pvilleguru
If passing yards are so overrated, why are the consensus top QBs near the top of the league in passing yards every year?
I think the best argument for passing yards being overrated is the emergence of guys like Kaep and Russell Wilson.
I think the best argument for passing yards being overrated is the emergence of guys like Kaep and Russell Wilson.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:10 pm to elprez00
yardage gained as a measure of the quality of an offense.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:11 pm to Billy Mays
quote:Because if they're the best in the league, they'll probably pass more times than other, lesser QBs.
If passing yards are so overrated, why are the consensus top QBs near the top of the league in passing yards every year?
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:14 pm to shel311
My campaign against WAR continues. It's incredibly inaccurate, and doesn't really measure anything except in the broadest possible terms. But people use it to be "smart", when WAR actually gives you LESS information than traditional rate stats of AVG/OBP/SLG.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:14 pm to shel311
They will usually pass more and have greater completion percentages.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:21 pm to beaverfever
quote:
RBI is much more relevant than Batting Average. Batting Average tells you virtually nothing. It's an awful stat.
Except the percentage at which a hitter gets on base by putting the ball in play. To me, that's a pretty damn important stat.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:24 pm to ohiovol
quote:
Saves
WORD.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:25 pm to elprez00
Any stat that isn't on a per attempt basis.
For example... 25 ppg means nothing if you took 100 shots in a game.
For example... 25 ppg means nothing if you took 100 shots in a game.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:35 pm to elprez00
"Assists" in baseball.
I didn't know it was a stat that was even kept until last year.
I didn't know it was a stat that was even kept until last year.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:38 pm to elprez00
SOS
Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:48 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:
WR and the QB gets an INT. It all washes out. Plus all the QB's get the same benefit so it does not warp anyone
The QB shouldn't get the INT for that though, it wasn't his fault.
And I know for some Saints fans the idea that passing yards is overrated, and I'm a Saints fan, but it's true.
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