Time to waste your day reading interwebs articles!
Those pesky multi-national corporations keep thwarting our PBS ticket boycott - Enquirer
Speaking of...those damn corporations are EVERYWHERE! More specifically, you've elected them to every political seat in both federal and local gov't - Ritholtz
Not even Zimmer can save us. Bengals on pace to threaten lowest sack total ever. Sacks are a glamour stat though, and overall QB pressure, a more subjective standard, is what really matters - Enquirer
Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Stats models suggested last week Bengals should have expected to beat the 0-3 Browns on the road about 38% of the time. A week later the models suggest we should beat 2-1 Tampa Bay at home 72% of the time. Pretty wild swing. Relying on statistically driven measures early in the year is a bad idea - NYTFDB
More from the NY Times, Mike Tanier of FO's weekly picks - NYTFDB
Your productive life ends....now! The rabbit hole begins with a blog dedicated to writing and directing you to all the X & O football analysis possible. It also ends here - smartfootball.com
Example one, first step to stopping Boise State? Finding Boise State - smartfootball
Example two, more on college, this should give Buckeyes fans ammo for their one complaint: Tresselball - alongtheolentangy
Closing thought - the Panthers and Browns games demonstrate how you can be justifiably discouraged in victory and encouraged in defeat. The Browns actually have some fight. The Bengals clearly outplayed them and a few things that "should" be random ended up costing them the game. More play like last week and the Bengals will contend.
Hooray for non-productive Friday!
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Posted by: ChinnyDoom NDoucheKwe | October 08, 2010 at 11:43 AM
i love links!!!
totally agree on the early season "game predictor" models. for example, espn's "accuscore" system had the browns as 59% favorites last week, BUT, if carson palmer had a 2:1 or better TD:INT ratio the bengals went from 41% underdogs to 70% favorites. what happened? well palmer of course rocks a 2:0 TD:INT ratio and the bengals lose. thats what.
also, here's another fun link: http://analyticfootball.blogspot.com/ by a guy i used to follow a lot more when i was more fanatical about sabermetrics/baseball stats who has turned to more football these days. for the record his "model" had the bengals as 82% confidence favorites vs cleveland last week. hes also starting a really interesting project on linemen holding blocks, which i am going to try to get him to run for the bengals too.
i think we win big sunday, i'll go ahead and state that for the record
Posted by: tide182 | October 08, 2010 at 12:26 PM
can someone fucking stab chase utley in a major artery. mother fucker fakes getting hit by a pitch. was so fucking out at second you could see it from the conan blimp. and skipped his fagotty ass over third base yet he is allowed to score. no need to look for jimmy hoffa in jersey - he's directing the umpire crew in philly.
Posted by: penn station ass fucks your cheesesteaks any day of the week and twice on sunday | October 08, 2010 at 09:07 PM
Anyone remember the Bucs/Bengals game from 2006? Tampa Bay won 14-13 because Marvin sucks at managing the clock? Yeah, me neither, I guess.
Posted by: Wyatt | October 09, 2010 at 10:48 AM
I seem to remember Tampa winning that game because Mike Carey called roughing the passer on Justin Smith for a clean sack.
Posted by: Mockenrue | October 09, 2010 at 12:50 PM
That game-winning drive by Tampa Bay? Yeah, that wouldn't have happened if Marvin had any concept of clock management.
Posted by: Wyatt | October 09, 2010 at 11:16 PM
I saw even CBS has a blog entry about how shitty Mike Brown is and why it means Marvin is probably gone.
http://nfl-facts-and-rumors.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22475988/25123017
Posted by: Bunk Moreland | October 10, 2010 at 06:02 AM