To defer or not??

[Fryowa]

Anecdotes, narratives, and one-offs.

If it is so obvious to you, please compile the numbers to show us you are correct.

Nice deflection, lol. First of all, I didn't say I had those "numbers," just that your post of winning percentage has no context and thus can't draw any conclusions relevant to the topic. Which is still true.

Second, if you do want some numbers,

Indiana 2021: 4 false starts, 1 delay of game penalty plus a time out due to crowd noise on the north end of the field.

Penn State 2021: 9 false starts (including 3 in a row), 7 of which were on the north end. Plus a time out due to crowd noise.

There are plenty more, you can go on ESPN and look at play by play box scores of every D-1 game going back over 10 years.

 

[ICHawk24]

What am I deflecting? You are the one making assertions.

I think it mostly doesn't matter. Same as my thoughts about the people who complained that Iowa started the B1G season with a conference road game for 8 years in a row, or whatever it was. The team had the same number of home games and road games no matter the order.

The visitors will be in the North end zone two quarters of every game.

 

[dagdaj]

Tha

There are plenty more, you can go on ESPN and look at play by play box scores of every D-1 game going back over 10 years.

That's be nearly 16,000 data points. More if you count bowl games from the first 7 of those years.

The problem is getting all 16k of those. You'd have to collect 16k sports books or game film or whatever a team uses to record stuff. And that's if they record it. You could get to who starts with the ball fairly easy, but not who won the toss. At least not in all thee digging i did or the digging i asked chatgpt to do.

Man I love this stuff. So useless and of zero value to me. I don't totally understand why I like it so much and am fascinated by it. I suck at math

My kid can do it. Which is why his soon to be actuary degree at Iowa has already landed him a job that pays over 4x more than my first job AFTER inflation adjustment.

I should have worked harder in math.

 

[Fryowa]

My kid can do it. Which is why his soon to be actuary degree at Iowa has already landed him a job that pays over 4x more than my first job AFTER inflation adjustment.

My son is 18 and started an HVAC apprenticeship 2 days after graduation. Was going to run in college and had most of it paid for with scholarships in track + XC but went this route because he decided he would be going for sports instead of school. He's not a sit at a desk kid in any way. Hates it.

Loves his job, free schooling 3 nights a week after work, and within about 4-5 years will make more than I do now.

 

[hawkdrummer1]

Kirk has a .642 win ptg when we start on offense. .567 when we start on defense.

It is a Jedi mind trick. Kirk takes the ball, our offense fizzles out, and we punt, showing the other team that the punt is not a bad outcome.

Where did you source this stat? Link?