http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog football, statistics, and football statistics (and other stuff) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:59:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week's SRS rankings Peter R. Wolfe's college games scores While little changed at the top -- only Ndamukong Suh and the Cornhuskers stand in the way of the seemingly inevitable Texas-Floribama BCS Championship Game -- it was a wild rivalry week in college football. The only two one-loss teams both lost ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4880 I'm stunned, absolutely stunned (your sarcasm meter should start going off about now) by the double standard that exists with complaining about coaching decisions. All last week, I heard about how a decision is judged on what happens thereafter. Well, by that standard, I saw plenty of decisions ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4815 On Monday, I posited a way to predict future NFL team performance while ignoring things like points scored, points allowed and win-loss record. Instead, I argued that we should break each team into four parts: passing efficiency, rushing efficiency, defensive passing efficiency and defensive rushing efficiency. Passing efficiency is defined ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4784 Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at PFR! And as usual, thanks are in order to Matt Knobbe and the Tecmo Super Bowl Repository, who present your Tecmo Super Bowl Game of the Week for Week 12, featuring the New England Patriots and the undefeated New Orleans Saints. The highlights: (How ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4793 Last week, a high level cat fight broke out over Malcolm Gladwell's book "What The Dog Saw" when Dr. Steven Pinker wrote a critique in the NY Times. That critique included a reference to one essay in the book, which originally ran last December in the New Yorker, entitled "Most ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4740 The Baltimore Ravens can't buy a red-zone touchdown these days -- against the Colts on Sunday, they had four chances from inside Indy's 20, and four times they came away with nothing so show for it. This isn't a new development, either; since they scored two red zone TDs against ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4768 I don't advocate gambling on football games, and neither does the P-F-R blog. Point-spread data are very useful as historical guides to understanding the perception at any point in time and to measure how the public may improperly value certain teams. The past is never a perfect prediction ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4733 Last week's SRS ratings Thanks to Peter R. Wolfe, who makes the final score of all college football games publicly available, here are the NCAA SRS ratings through twelve weeks: rk team conf confrk ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4744 Philip Rivers leads the Chargers into battle against the Denver Broncos again on Sunday, and San Diego has to feel pretty good about its chances with No. 17 at the helm. That's because, out of all the players in NFL/AFL history to face the Broncos franchise, no quarterback has ever performed ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4721 Sports-Reference, with the help of researcher Greg Spira, is proud to present our definitive, comprehensive reference page regarding the performance-enhancing drug policies in place for various North American sports leagues/associations. In it, you'll find a list (in FAQ format) of the various PED regulations in pro sports leagues, in addition ... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4719