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TOM COUGHLIN WILL RETURN TO THE GIANTS This will not go over well with Ultimate NYG's Glenn Warciski.
For what it's worth, I think Coughlin is owed but one more chance.
no commentsCREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE 30 for 30 is pretty damn nifty. That doesn't get you off the hook, ESPN, but it helps.
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Much of my time that I would ordinarily spend boring you all here has been devoted to the editing and general administration of Bloguin's Olympic Hockey Blog. Today, I've got the Olympic Hockey Wake-Up Call, if you're looking for a quick bit of insight on the games you missed last night, stop on by and say hello.no comments
ME IN OTHER PLACES My BBA colleague, Daniel Aubain the proprietor of excellent COSFBA, extended a gracious invitation to comment on my new hometown team, the Texas Rangers. Give it a read, and make sure to tell me what an idiot I am!
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FOOTBALL AND STATS Nate Dunlevy writes on the meaningfulness of football statistics. He's responding to both Phil Simms and Bill Polian who recently commented that in football statistics are largely irrelevant. Dunlevy disagrees and successfully refutes Polian, but fails to make the case for the benefit that stats provide. The primary reason is that football is a game of many starting points and few end points. Baseball by contrast is a game of few starting points, in many ways, just one, a pitcher with the ball, and many end points. That allows for a consistent starting point for analysis. Secondly, the number of repeated events in any baseball game allows for statistical relevance over the course of the long season. That isn't to say that football statistics are meaningless, just that they are in the infancy of their study. In time, the metrics will exist to allow a fundamental, objective understanding of the game. Until they do, statistics will require context. Polian and Simms are quite correct. But they won't always be. Dunlevy's piece is well worth your time.
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