I find your criteria for determining who 'deserves' to win a game to be a little...off.
Lets say we use your metrics and Team A plays Team B. Team B has a tremendous pass defense, but they can't stop the run if it was Steven Hawking without his wheelchair. Team B comepletely shuts down the passing game, even has negative yardage on pass plays taking sacks into account, but Team A runs the ball for 500 yds and 6 TDs. Do you see how your metrics might be a little flawed? I would aslo argue that if you average 15 yds per pass play and do not score more points than your opponent, then you do not deserve to win. The Giants defense palyed very well, with teh exception of 2 big plays that both went for TDs). The offense played almsot as well as I expected against the #1 defense in the league. But, we still scored 19 points against that defense and gained mroe yards than any other tema this season. Maybe Jacobs wasn't tearing off 10-15 yarders all the time, but he was wearing them down, and I think that showed late in the game. The O-line did a great job at protecting Eli - I am not even sure if he ever even got knocked down. Lastly, using a metric that solely depends on one facet of the offense might skew your results a bit. On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Won Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it is true the team that scores more points deserve to win but how > they score their points is very important to me. I'm looking for > repeatable results. > > If we just looked at the results the analysis would be simple. My usually > stat to look at Passing Yards Per Attempt. Then look at Adjusted Passing > Yards per attempt. > > The Steelers won the PYA but the Giants won the APYA because APYA > subtracts sack yardage. > > This is high praise for a 2nd year WR that missed most of the first, but I > can't remember Steve Smith (the NY version) look so bad. He let some > balls go through his hand. Lucikly the Giants still had Toomer - > professional receiver. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:11 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: GIANTS vs cowboys > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The oddest part of the game is trying to answer, "Who deserved to win > > that > > > game?" > > > The Giants, were overall, more effective than the Steelers. But the > > > Steelers absolutely dominated the 3rd quarter. The NY Def really put > on > > > their big boy pants in the 3rd qt just to be able to hang in despite > > being > > > on the field for so long. > > > > > > The team that scored the most points deserved to win. > > > > I would agree with that. > > I remember a few years back after a Giants/Eagles game. I think the > Giants > fumbled 5 times (and turned it over all 5, but still won). An Eagles fan > posted to the Giants newsgroup that a team that turns the ball over 5 > times > doesn't deserve to win. > > My response was, "does a team that forces 5 turnovers but still score > fewer > points deserve to win?" > > One of the few online discussions that I think I actually won. > > If a team plays like shit but still comes out with more points, it > generally > means that at some point during the game they played well enough to > overcome > the parts of the game where they played like shit. > > -- > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my > wife. And I wish you my kind of success. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276893 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
