Interesting…
August 17th, 2008 by Christopher ConfessoreLive From Coors Field
August 13th, 2008 by The Borg
It’s 6:50pm Mountain Time, and I’m sitting 21 rows behind the visiting AZ Dbacks dugout. Let’s PLAY BALL!
I am Curious, Red
August 13th, 2008 by Brad BannonI just can’t get enough of this
August 11th, 2008 by Robert Schlesinger
Tiger Still Leading FedEx Cup!
August 7th, 2008 by DavidI happened to check out the FedEx Cup standings for humor today.
With two weeks left in the “regular season” (whatever that means in golf), Tiger Woods is still leading the FedEx Cup points totals. This is after playing in only 6 events, and being out due to season ending surgery since June 16 after winning the US Open.
#1 might not last through the regular season, but he is likely to stay in the top five:
Top 5 (name, events played, points):
- Tiger Woods 6 22,695
- Kenny Perry 21 20,878
- Phil Mickelson 16 17,354
- Stewart Cink 17 15,126
- Anthony Kim 17 15,115
Full FedEx Cup Point Standings
Kenny Perry with a first, second or third finish at the PGA Championship could finally overtake Tiger at #1 (after playing in 16 more events than Tiger…)
That is an insane level of Tiger dominance.
Youth may not spring eternal, but hope surely does
August 7th, 2008 by Robert SchlesingerBrett Favre joins other Hall of Famers who played for the Jets, like Art Monk and Ronnie Lott.
Oh? You don’t remember their Jet tenures?
And in 20 years Favre’s Jet tenure will be as memorable as Willie Joe Namath’s Rams go-round. This is how it has always been with the Jets and so it shall ever be. Teases and moments of hope whose only apparent use is to raise Jet fans’ hopes for later dashing.
But … how glorious the view is from the summit of Mount Hope. Sure we know the scratching of pebbles only portends the avalanche of doom that will engulf this Jets team, but for a day or a week or a month the promised land seems as close as a Brett Favre throw.
Favre to Jets
August 7th, 2008 by Robert Schlesinger17 years after the Jets traded up to draft QB Brett Favre (and watched him go one pick earlier) … Broadway Brett.
More fun football stats
August 5th, 2008 by Robert SchlesingerMore fun stats from Football Prospectus:
- The New York Jets threw to the left more often than any other team in 2007.
- The New England Patriots lined up five-wide more than twice as often as any other team in 2007.
- The New York Giants threw one third of their passes to the left, one third to the middle and one third to the right in 2007.
The Packers get some professional help, are preparing to invade Iraq
August 3rd, 2008 by Robert SchlesingerThe Packers have signed a high-profile free agent.
Yes, that Ari Fleischer.
He’s a Middlebury graduate by the way.
So what’s up with that? What could Green Bay possibly need PR help with?
Football sabermetrics: New York, New York — catching (and not) passes from Manning and Pennington
August 3rd, 2008 by Robert Schlesinger
I picked up the Pro Football Prospectus 2008 a couple of weeks ago and have been nibbling from it since. It’s great fun, especially if you enjoy the notion of bringing baseball-style statistical weed-diving to the pro football game. If stats like Defense-Adjusted Yards Above Replacement (DYAR) appeal, this book is for you.
But even if that doesn’t appeal, it’s got an appendix chock full of more digestible but still interesting statistics. I’ll endeavor to share a few over the next few weeks.
For a start how about the quarterbacks who suffered the worst and best rates of dropped passes in 2007:
* Eli Manning’s receivers dropped 49 passes last year, a clip of 9.3 percent, putting him atop the list (minimum 200 passes thrown). Chad Pennington’s receivers dropped eight passes for a clip of 3.1 percent.
More to come.