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in my research of basketball statistics, i came across an interesting index that calculates a player's chances of being inducted into the HOF based on a variety of factors. here are some VERY interesting examples.
Dirk and Nash have a higher probability than Scottie Pippen.
Vince Carter, J-Kidd, and T-Mac have a higher probability than John Stockton.
Gilbert Arenas has a 20% higher chance than Tony Parker.
Allen Iverson has the same chance as Kobe and Shaq.
Mutumbo has a 0.73% chance of getting in (half as likely as Shareef Abdur Rahim).
First, it makes it easier on teams who don't have the draft picks available to snag a premium power + speed back. Second, it obviously prolongs careers and keeps your RBs fresh for when you really need them late in games. Third, it allows offenses to show so many more looks, be it 2-RB backfields or constant RB motion to the flanks as a receiver (while still leaving an RB in the backfield to run). Fourth, it gives each RB more incentive to work hard and produce, since they won't be the Golden Boy who has ultimate job security.
However, all those reasons are bull**** because RB tandems kill fantasy football, which we all know is more important than real football anyway.
:-D
CA doesn't have enough teams because the 49ers and Raiders are, collectively, the teams God forgot about. They should be in the BCS rankings (tho i doubt they'd actually crack the top 25).
Florida has 3 teams, NY has 3 teams, we have the Chargers and two 53-man groups of criminals and fairies. LA would certainly draw some free agent interest, those looking for big money and a media frenzy, even if the team was terrible (see: NY Knicks).
C-Smith | 09/01/08, 12:08 PM
well they certainly recruit and pay players like NFL teams do :-D
haha jk. not really. cheating ****.
2004 Pro Bowl QB Selection:
Michael Vick: 2313 yds, 14 TDs, 12 INTs, 56% comp
Brett Favre: 4088 yds, 30 TDs, 17 INTs, 64% comp
Vick was voted to the Pro Bowl as the 3rd NFC QB.
Yes, I am a diehard Packer fan, and have an obvious bias in this case. But numbers don't lie. If only fans would vote on quality of play and not jersey sales, I'd respect the Pro Bowl rosters a little more.
DanTheMan: you lose credibility because you have a picture of the very man as your icon. And like every other fairweather fan (we got em here in LA too) you simply can't admit your own team's faults.
As for taping, we all know the Pats were guilty. No reason to harp on it over and over again. But just consider this:
- They won each of their SBs by only three points, twice at the very end of the game.
- The year they bear Carolina, the Panthers had the stingiest defense in the league, esp at the end of the season. Yet the Pats smoked the holy balls out of them, and several CAR players, including Ken Lucas, said (paraphrasing) "it was like they knew our next move before we did."
- I'm sure other teams taped. But did those other teams with Super Bowls by the narrowest of margins against mostly favored opponents?
Taping isn't the only issue here. Remember the reports of visiting teams having QB headset "malfunctions" on third downs in the second halfs of games at Gillete Stadium? That's why the NFL now requires a league sound technician at EACH game to oversee headset functionality.
I hate the Pats and everything about them except for Brady (woo woo Michigan boy). I wonder how all this will affect his legacy, since knowingly or not he benefited from the cheating. If players using roids loses them the Hall, it should keep Belichick out. Period.
Wonderful statistic. Where'd you get it?
The average NFL career is 3 years, and one of the main reasons is because lineman flare out so quickly due to injuries and weight issues. It is the RARE exception for lineman to last so long (bruce smith/matthews etc). In the case of Taylor, he is tall, lean, and very athletic, so playing another couple years wouldn't be as much of an issue for him than it was for, say, Gilbert Brown (oh what a behemoth).
And as for Rice, he DIDN'T get hit all the time, that's one of the reasons why he lasted so long. Much like Marvin Harrison, he played the game hard but never unnecessarily so. He was never afraid to take a hit, but he also knew that running out of bounds for a gain of 8 is better than getting blasted out of bounds for a gain of 8. Superior route running, as practiced by these two, allows them to catch the ball in space and grant them most of the control over how the hit will go down, as opposed to catching it over the middle and letting the FS tee off on them.