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From: jjc@houxl.UUCP (J.CARBONARO)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Sorry, Tampa Bay.
Message-ID: <871@houxl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 14:16:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 14:16:14 1985
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<This year, the average losses are:
<
<	in-conference:		15 points
<	out-of-conference:	12 points
<
<Most of the games that Tampa Bay has lost has been by FIVE points or less!  
<That is well below the average!  You should stop looking at a team's record
<and start looking at their performance.  They ARE ranked 13th in the league in
<offensive yardage per game.  That beats "monsters" like San Francisco and the
<LA Raiders.  Look sharp, or you'll get stung!
<
<Robert A. Ekblaw



   Who cares!  Bob, they are 1 and TEN!  How can they be any good?!?
As far as stats are concerned, the Bucs avg loss this year has been
by 12 points.  And even if you throw out their latest fiasco against
the Jets, it's still a 9 point average loss.  That, in itself is not
horrible, as your stats would indicate.  BUT THE POINT IS, teams that
LOSE by 9 or 12 or whatever points, at least WIN a few by as many.
What the heck have the Bucs done.
   Here we go again (dwelling on stats), but just to continue the
discussion from our original postings - If you look at "avg losses", you
miss the fact that there are a lot more numbers HIGHER than 10 (or 5)
than not.  Thanks to Dave Nargis (who sent me the stats), I see that
the MEDIAN loss for ALL games from the beg'g of last season, through
week #10 of 1985 (about 360 games) was 9.6 points.
   Look, I don't have time to check all the Buc scores, but you say
most of their losses were by 5 points or less.  How many - 6?
Let's assume so.  That's (at most) 30 points worth of losses.  That
means they lost the other 4 by an average of 23 points!
   I'm sorry, I just don't see what is so good (or even promising)
about that.
   One last thing, please don't quote me irrelevant facts about the
49ers or Raiders.  I never said anything about THEM.  This has nothing
to do with them.  The last thing I want to do is get into one of
these fan vs fan things which continue to monopolize the net.  Oh well,
I guess that's what it's for.