Thread: Football 606 Points In A Season
View Single Post
Old 12-30-2013, 05:57 PM   #53
cdcox cdcox is offline
www.nfl-forecast.com
 
cdcox's Avatar
 

Join Date: Sep 2000
Casino cash: $-618231
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rain Man View Post
Wow, the passing data is really interesting. I wonder what happened in 1947 to throw the yardage numbers up so quickly. I don't think it would be AAFC thing, because I don't think their stats are included in NFL stats. And then around 1968 they hit the skids, and again I'm not sure why. There's likely an AFL effect, but the pattern doesn't seem to match exactly.

You have the same bulge in TD passes per game, which again doesn't exactly match the AFL era or the AAFC era. How weird.
Some speculation on reasons are here:

http://www.advancednflstats.com/2010...-analysis.html
Posts: 46,037
cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.cdcox is obviously part of the inner Circle.
     Reply With Quote