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To: lepton; All
Btw, since a lower psi benefits not only RB not fumbling as much, but receivers catching the ball -- and in fact, a lower psi REALLY benefits the receivers and not so much the QB...my hunch was that the completion % of Brady would have been impacted significantly moving from the 2006 to 2007 season.

And, of course, I looked...and I was right:

Brady's completion % went from 61.8% in 2006 to a career-high 68.9% ... an 11.5% improvement in a single season!
Tom Brady: Career Stats

In fact thru 2006, Brady was consistently at 60%...61%..62%...63%

Then he gets his own footballs...

07: 68.9%
08: Injured
09: 65.7%
10: 65.9%
11: 65.6%
(he was back down in 12 & 13...getting older, ya know)
But in '14 was higher than any single season 2001-2006

75 posted on 01/31/2015 7:36:14 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

Doesn’t the home team control the footballs between when the refs make them available 5 minutes before kickoff until the reach the field? If so, and analysis of home vs away percentages wrt fumbles, drops, and completion percentage might be illuminating.


78 posted on 01/31/2015 7:58:39 AM PST by ez (RIP America 1776-2014. Long live the oligarchy.)
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To: Colofornian

He had relatively poor receivers until 2007. Moss and Welker, picked up in 2007, were all-time greats.

Both statistics and Ideal Gas Laws done correctly are illuminating. Done wrong as with the cherry picked “experts” you keep choosing, both are dumbassery.

Even Bill Nye admits he can’t tell the difference in 1.5 PSI... even if he is too dense to realize that is what he demonstrated.


80 posted on 01/31/2015 8:31:05 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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