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PIE ENDS THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
00:00:09–00:00:34
Horse on a treadmill
Galloping all day, nowhere
He hates poetry
Can't wait for this guy to get on campus and rip it up.
A few years ago Football Outsiders tracked what they called Receiver Plus/Minus- looking at how well a receiver did at catching passes adjusted for depth of pattern.
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2009/receiving-plusminus-...
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2009/receiving-plusminus-...
I don't think they still track that stat, partially because it was Bill Barnwell's project (and he's left for Grantland), and partly because it's not terribly consistent year-to-year. You may want to look at that to see if you can improve your numbers. After all, it's easier to catch a bubble screen than it is to catch a 40 yard bomb.
This is getting ridiculous.
PS PieFTW
Teach me your ways, master of the haiku
Mighty Ducks disagree!
Also, this is getting ridiculous.
However, although I am a pie preferrer, googling 'cake eater' gives more pictures of pretty ladies than googling 'pie eater'.
Impressive work, I think it really shows that although there was no complete excuse for his (Thomas) mediocre play at the start of the season it wasn't all his fault. As the receivers improve so will the QB...
Just think - had you been an engineering major you could have been a rocket scientist!
Nice work!
I'm surprised that Boykin graded so poorly. I seem to remember that he was able to catch just about any ball thrown his way.
I've had one of their pizza's in hooville, it was tasty
This is awesome, Zach. And holy hell, looks like this is about your first contribution to the community. Exceedingly well done, both the effort and the execution are impressive.
According to my own just-now-made-up-stat, your post efficiency is at about 519%, 5 for the Tyrod and 19 for the Open. Meaning that a recipient of your effort achieves knowledge more than five times the amount of effort required to read your offerings.
Awesome analysis! I love numbers. A few questions:
What happens to these numbers when you stop giving credit for drops? Perhaps the following equation might make the differences between good and bad recievers a liitle more explicit:
(er+sr+tr)/(catchable targets - (sr+sd)(1/4) - (tr+td)(1/2))
so, basically, every catch counts the same, but you only expect a reciever to catch 3/4 of the "should have been caught" and half of the "tough catches". I just pulled those out of my ass, you can make expected completion percentage for each catagory whatever you want.
Also, something that might be interesting while you've got the excel sheet with the data - what percentage of passes at a WR are uncatchable? They might be indicative of poor route running, not being on the same page with the qb, or just not having a great catchable radius. Likewise, a guy who always has a chance at coming down with a ball thrown at him is either an amazing physical specimen, or has a great connection with the qb.
Dabo actually gave portion of his salary to Chad Morris because he knew he had a gold mine in Morris, that's part of the reason for his success as head coach, and next season with a new quarterback and slew of players, it'll be interesting to see if Morris don't pull a Gus Malzhan.
There's plenty of stories about Dabo that makes me appreciate him. For example, had his mother live with him while he was in college. I think she had some kind of health issue and he took care of her.
I'd like to amend my survey answer re: the next t-shirt. I think I'd go for a Breaking Bud or a What's my name, or a Bud Heisenberg.
From a chef's perspective, cakes today are made with more processed crap than pies. I love both (and generally stay away from all desserts to preserve my svelt figure), but you're more likely to have a cake made entirely from a box with various forms of over-manipulated corn that your body can't process, thus leading to diabeetus and 'Murica and whatnot. There's nothing wrong with a good, made-from-scratch cake with a real buttercream, but you're more likely to find a pie filling made from scratch.
It is a great title, but an even better article. Overall a great job!
Those JUGS machine are paying off. Moorehead told me he used to do it and used to catch eggs (not hardboiled either), said the JUGS machine were confidence builder (obviously), and with the running backs and fullbacks helping out in the passing game, Thomas has a wealth of targets to choose from.
I'm just waiting for Sam Rogers to score on a catch in the end zone.
This is terrific work Zach. Very insightful look into the receivers production, and it also demonstrates how each receiver is a credible threat, making it difficult for a defense to focus on shutting down just one guy. As Sid Gilliam often taught, the geometry of the game dictates that a defense can not defend the entire field effectively, so if every receiver is a threat and the patterns attack every bit of available space while forcing defenders to make choices, the defense can not defend the passing game.
French doesn't eat cheese or cake, but he loves cheesecake so...cheesecake must be pie. #Frenchlogic
Cheese is the worst.
When I eat birthday cake, my RollTides are green. That doesn't happen with pie. Point, pie.
I think that's great. They obivously are trying to figure out what's their strength and weakness are 7 games in the season. We know they have a tremendous passing attack with the emergence of Willie Bryn*, Kalvin Cline, Sam Rogers, all the running backs, Joshua Stanford, D.J. "Red Zone Specialist" Coles, and Knowles.
They are definitely going to tweak with the playbooks to improve the rushing attack and look at the personnel grouping for the line so they can have the best run blockers out on the field.
*Every time Bryn gets the ball and juke someone, I'm going to say, "You just got Byrned."
That's just Dabo being Dabo