I had jets -4, SHIPPPPP, more fun to score anyway how many chances you get at a pick6?

ZOMGLOLZZZZZ

lol brilliant

Your right but I had Jets fantasy D/ST and needed those points

 

Originally Posted by orgnalsooners

u are 100% correct in ur assessment... I was also thinking about that LSU kicker who threw ball when his knee is on the ground.. In college when ur knee is down , the ball is dead but they don't do that here... Just a point

every kick would be blown dead before the kicker could even kick the ball if it worked like that

the DRC touchdown in the cardinals/saints game was much worse

Not to even mention the scenario of the Jet missing the extra point and then the Vikings have the ball with 1:30 on the clock down just 1 possession.

I don't understand why/how the fuck they could consider you opinion on this to be a "yo-yo caller" remark. They must be pretty fucking retarded/bad at math/not comprehend optimal football strategy if they serious disagreed with you about it.

You get to burn 40 seconds of the clock per kneel, so 120 seconds from kneeling it on 1st, 2nd and 3rd down, so, since there were only 92 seconds left in the game, they could have 100.0% guaranteed themselves a win if Lowery had lied down on the ball after his pick and they QB kneeled the clock out afterwards.

Instead, they gave the Vikings around a 1-2% chance of winning by doing it this way, which might sound insignificant, but really isn't. 1-2% of turning what could've been a 100.0% guaranteed win into a loss is pretty gross. Let's say each win is worth like 20 million dollars to the team or something, he basically just threw away several hundred thousand dollars of team money, ev-wise, by being all mathematically gheytarded and not lying down with it instead of running it back.

That said, I can understand how Lowery could make this error in optimal strategy in the heat of the moment, due to it all happening in a matter of seconds/extreme stress making him not realize he was turning a guarantee-win into a non-guarantee-win by doing what he was doing, however... I CANNOT understand how the after-the-fact post game analyzers like this ESPN radio crew could possibly also make this error, since, unlike Lowery, they aren't in the process of running around with 300 lb monsters flying at them having to make frantic thoughts in a span of a few seconds, rather, they are able to take their sweet time to think the scenario over calmly/rationally/logically in their heads after the fact, after the game, and comprehend the correct optimal play in that scenario, and yet they still managed not to comprehend it somehow. That's ASTONISHINGLY bad on their part. Fuck those guys.

 

Originally Posted by XXEDPXX

every kick would be blown dead before the kicker could even kick the ball if it worked like that

True story, I heard the guy and it made sense.

 

Originally Posted by gray31

What exactly do these things have to do with each other?

Not a damn thing but u prolly already knew that.

Congrats ?????????????? Not sure what's appropriate here

a pick six is like the holy grail for db's. defensive players dont get a chance to score very often and when they do they are gonna go for it no matter what the situation. its not optimal strategy and i dont agree with it but theyre gonna do it. its stats that ultimately get them paid and interceptions and pick sixes are big stats for db's.

I posted in the MNF thread about how if i'm Rex Ryan or Ken Whisenhunt I try to run the shit out of my game-clinching player at next practice to illustrate game theory to my players. 100% chance of victory>>>99.x% chance. I was obviously and predictably ridiculed by one of the clueless.

Brian Westbrook's 1-yard-line knee a couple years back was the single most intelligent play in NFL history, and something that should be driven home to players. Probably by the same Madden savant all the clock-managing idiots like Andy Reid(who is actually a good coach) and Mike Singletary (lolgasm) should be hiring to solve their late-game woes. There is a decision tree of clearly mathematically optimal plays, and this was far outside it, but most people are clueless to that fact.

 

Originally Posted by zander

I posted in the MNF thread about how if i'm Rex Ryan or Ken Whisenhunt I try to run the shit out of my game-clinching player at next practice to illustrate game theory to my players. 100% chance of victory>>>99.x% chance. I was obviously and predictably ridiculed by one of the clueless.

Brian Westbrook's 1-yard-line knee a couple years back was the single most intelligent play in NFL history, and something that should be driven home to players. Probably by the same Madden savant all the clock-managing idiots like Andy Reid(who is actually a good coach) and Mike Singletary (lolgasm) should be hiring to solve their late-game woes. There is a decision tree of clearly mathematically optimal plays, and this was far outside it, but most people are clueless to that fact.

"FOOTBALL is a game of EMOTION and MOTIVATION. Who needs STATS? I BELIEVE that you send the wrong MESSSAGE to your football team if you tell them NOT to SCORE. I don't know if YOU can do that in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE."~Trent Dilfer

i guess these DBs didnt watch the 49ers game last week when the DB fumbled on his way "to the house" and Atlanta recovered and drove back down the field to get a game winning fg. If these analysts ripped u, u should have brought up this point. if the still called u wrong, u should have said they were idiots.

 

Originally Posted by Bong BrOke

I also thought it was hilarious when Cromartie tried to return the INT on the 2 point conversion attempt...I mean really?

Yeah, that was bizarre. I wonder what the rule is though if he fumbles. I would think the play should be over as soon as he gains possession but it looked like they didn't blow it until he left the end zone.