I’ve got another of these statistical discussions that don’t directly involve football, let alone the NFL. But I’ll try to bring it around to pro football at the end. I got looking at some volleyball stats the other day and remembered how they calculate the attack percentage from ...
Oops, I should’ve known better. I made an off-hand comment in this column last week, saying “So I’m amazed I’ve even gotten two-thirds of my picks right….” Just a kind of a blase way of saying I’m a pretty good prognosticator, since my usual percentage is me struggling to hit ...
Though it might not be suggested for the good health of your heart, take the first two weeks of the NFL season with a grain of salt. Not just because there were a few wild upsets and some just-as-wild swings from game to game for several teams. No, it’s just the nature of the beast this ...
Lately, I’ve figured out I’m a “big idea” kind of guy. I mean, when I come up with something that might seem kind of pushy but that I really like, someone is always saying, “What’s the big idea?” They also have this really weird stare, like they couldn’t believe that I ...
Boy, this whole mess with college football really has me bummed. Not so much for what is actually happening, but in trying to think of what the best way out of this predicament is. Specifically, this is all going on because of another instance of the American court system meddling with ...
Every year when I write this Armchair Quarterback column leading into the Super Bowl, I focus on the prop — short for “proposition” — bets that are out there. They’re sometimes common, sometimes quite unusual circumstances that don’t directly affect the outcome of the ...
