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Originally Posted by CarlosCarson88
I just explained how all your stats crunching is entirely meaningless. The league is letting teams score by calling less penalties, to keep fans interested.
Won't be number 2 defense later? Who cares? if they're 5 through 8, they'll still be a top defense.
No one's as good as their ranking. It's all manufactured by the league.
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Exactly. Yet you still can't figure out it's fixed.
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The stat "2nd ranked defense" is a manufactured stat, yet somehow it's meaningful to you.
The funny part about that ranking is that it's based on yards given up; there's no context at all.
It was the same story last season with NE. Everyone went around saying "the Pats have the no.1 defense in the league!" But when I broke down not only who they played but exactly how many yards per game, passing D stats and rushing D stats, average yards/snap, pts/game, etc., it was obvious their defense wasn't nearly a good as advertised. I noted it around week 5 or 6, IIRC. I even postulated that NE's defense was probably closer to 13th back around week 8. By week 14 or so NE's defense wasn't no.1 anymore. I think they were around 11th.
But for some reason you think total yards given up means something. Okay. It's incorrect, but you go with that.