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Come on, you know there aren't enough pass interference penalties to explain that gap. It's just further proof that two different guys look at the same play and give it different grades.

 

this. its still possible, but the math simply gets much, much harder when variables are not independent, introducing non-linearities & combinatorial explosion.

 

Multi-variable calculus is not a huge problem, it's assigning subjective value to dependent variables that makes this pseudo-statistics. I still like it because subjective analysis better than nothing, but we should always remember that grading plays will inevitably be subjective.

 

agreed with the data issues - its subjective and official record keeping does not include relevant data for these evaluations (so you have to collect it yourself, which introduces more subjectivity), but its not as much of a problem of multi-variable calculus as it is one of non-linear dynamics.

 

True. Holy shit, it's been a long time since I took chaos theory.

 

one of the few subjects I can speak authoritatively about.

 

For me its jelly beans

 

Sounds like Trufant may be done but he was a guy we talked a lot about on this board the year we drafted Gross.

We are probably better off drafting a corner than spending much money on any of those guys. If the market is not there and we can get one at a discount maybe we should try but there are no blue chips on that list.

 

Claiborne or Kirkpatrick would be fine in the first round, but I feel like that pick is almost a foregone conclusion to be Coples at this point.

 

it depends on the weight of the penalties. The intent is to set criteria and grade from them, not for those independent criteria matching different things to match exactly.

But, the thing is, your source did say it was incomplete, and you constantly rail on these type ratings when you disagree with them, but it didn't keep you from quoting one, and then discussing another positively (Martin's), yesterday.