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dldove77

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KillerKat Grand Master

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I'll just leave this here:

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Overall, the Panthers have 16 drops according to ESPN Stats and Information. That ties them for 16th in the NFL. Newton’s completion percentage would be 62.1 percent without the drops. That would move him to 23rd in the league, ahead of the Broncos' Peyton Manning (59.9) and not far behind the Packers'Aaron Rodgers (63.3).

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/62981/a-closer-look-at-cam-newtons-completion-percentage-and-drops

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mwu Newbie

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One of the article's paragraphs annotated to fix the math problems -- anything in brackets I added to make it correct:

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If you have the best record, there’s about a 40% chance you win the Super Bowl. If you don’t, there’s a [combined] 60% chance [one of the teams without the best record will win the Super Bowl]. These numbers can be easily explained to benefit the best record team, actually — in years in which one team has the best record, it’s that one team versus the field. One against 11. Not great odds. Still, the odds are better for [all of the rest of the] teams [combined together] that don’t lead the pack.

 

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5 hours ago, mwu said:

I commented on Chris Chase's facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/thechrischase/posts/1233659776660444) and sent a tweet (https://twitter.com/marcuswu/status/667825655564791808). I would have commented directly on the article, but that wasn't an option (surprise surprise).

Basically, his math seems about right on the team with the best record winning the SB at 40% over the 15 years mentioned. However flipping that and saying that you have a better chance of winning the SB as a team without the best record is significantly wrong. All teams with a lower record than the best combined would comprise a 60% chance, but each of those teams individually has a much lower chance of winning the SB. The average would be 5.45% chance. He posted a national article with bogus math and very misleading statements.

I laughed out loud when I read that sentence as well and went to comment as you did and couldn't find out how.

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8 hours ago, panthers55 said:

I love articles like this. Imagine how pissed he will be when we become the worse 10-0/ever. The more they deride us the more I laugh when we prove them wrong again. Most folks love us or hate us. I love us. Screw the haters as we beat our opposition into the ground. Doing the dab in their face.

Well, yeah, the doubters articles are good to read and watch.  Especially that year we were 1-7 and the laughing stock even though we controlled our own destiny, still, and were one win away from sneaking in the playoffs.  The only way you'll ever prove them wrong though is if you win the superbowl.  That's pretty tough though so they'll stick with the odds of waiting to say "I told you so," but this guy takes it to a whole different level.  He just shoots down everyone's parade.  Bengals are a cocky 8-1, Panthers are a joke at 9-0, Belichick's a pathetic coach, Peyton is 73, and Rodger's is yada yada yada.

I bet if the Panthers do go 10-0 then I'm pretty sure he will just comment about how he won't be able to eat his turkey while watching the Panthers all blue jersey on his TV.  Maybe throw out some great stat on Monday's article that the Panthers have never won a game on Thanksgiving.  He certainly won't mention that Carolina is 15-3 in December since Rivera came in, tied for league best over that span so that even if they did lose some games they could still finish strong.  Nope, you won't see that from him after Carolina somehow wronged him.

His latest article was intentionally aimed at people (pacman, Bengals fans and Panther fans) that annoyed him the previous week so apparently that does get under his skin.  I read 3 of his articles and that's it for me.  I'm taking the classy approach.  Simply no need to read any more of his articles, ever.

I was in Nashville this past weekend and meet hundreds of Panthers fans and had several conversations with at least 5 different groups of Bengals fans heading out to watch their team on Monday night as we all mingled on the streets and bars in the music city.  NO ONE was looking past the current game.  Even the word playoffs WAS NOT MENTIONED one time by anyone so I'm not certain what he means by "rolling the red carpet out" and "crowning them."  I guess he got a little too excited learning that both cities are Queen cities and associated our excitement as expectation.  Cam said it best.  We are in our Happy place and I; I will be dancing in the moment.  Sweet Caroline!

 

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14 minutes ago, csx said:

The quest to have every member of the media praise the Panthers is futile. The overwhelming majority sees this team as legitimate.

I don't care if or expect every member of the media to praise the Panthers.But if someone witites an article like this one, that is regurgitating a lazy and false narrative about our team, the writer should be called out and questioned for producing this hot garbage.

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