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Going For It: Applying The Bellman Equation To Football

Berkeley economist David Romer wrote an interesting paper in 2005 entitled Do Firms Maximize? Evidence From Professional Football in which he posits that football coaches are far too reliant on kicking on 4th down. Romer believes that teams should be going for it far more often in order to maximize their team’s chances […]

Kansas St Preview

What do we now know about Kansas St?
First, Alessana Alessana has not yet run amok. Prince has kept a tight grip on his mana in the snow globe and continues to give him a steady diet of atracurium darts to his thorax whenever he makes Maori eyes at the Wildcat waterboy. […]

NFL Trivial Stats - Volume 1

I suspect one has to be more than a bit odd to find any of this interesting, which makes it just perfect for me. I was the type of kid who studied the statistics on the back of his Topps baseball cards in the 70’s (except for the Cincinnati Reds cards that I glued inside […]

  • Sasha_Is_A_Longhorn_Dog: I am shocked that this post has disintegrated into an SEC versus all other confe...
  • dedfischer: The main reason is because they've got some reasonable talent at the DT position...
  • Horn Brain: So you wouldn't trade with any D-line in the conference but OU's? Our backup DE...
  • sooner tim: Good call on the omissions of Beamer and Grobe. I don't have a clue why Grobe i...
  • Doperbo: Who is Mark Richt?...
  • sooner tim: Are you sure you're not Dan Jenkins?...
  • HowAboutThisChris?: Sooo...That's the best argument you have, huh? "It's fucking Kansas, dude. Ka...
  • Mike H: Thanks for the Lee/Permian props. All us West Texas love it when our boys are u...
  • ChrisApplewhite: "Putting aside the Mark Richt drama for a second, what is the case for Tedford o...
  • ChrisApplewhite: Mangino in a heartbeat. It's fucking Kansas, dude. Kansas. They went from 2-10 t...

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