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12:12 AM

Q: How many championship rings does Troy Aikman have?

As I was watching Green Bay beat up on Carolina today, I saw a Papa John's Pizza ad featuring Troy Aikman. During the commercial, they show a closeup on his hand, bejeweled with his championship rings: Troy Aikman won three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys, but I see six rings here. How...

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Seth

2:16 AM

Ugh, just when the Seahawks give you reason to put faith in them, they fail you. Hopefully once Percy is gone things will get better.

Hopefully. What happen to the team who beat Green Bay, played.. dare I say 'well' in SD's 110 degree weather? and then beat Denver?

Seth

2:32 AM

We did have a lot of people out on injuries I guess.

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Ice Boy

4:39 AM

@Seth at this point in the regular season I won't worry too much about the close loss, always remember the lesson, 18 wins and 1 GIANT loss to a WILD card team.

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Stack Exchange

8:01 AM

Q: Answer after modify questions

This question was modify to take possible to choose a correct answer. The last version limits the field to NFL/NBA/NHL/MLB tournaments, but there were a lot of reply posted before the updating. So not those reply seems wrong or offtopic with the risk of downvote, ho is it possible to prevent thi...

discussion down-votes

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user46190

1:18 PM

@Seth he had three TDs called back against the redskins...but i suppose team chemistry is important

user46190

@IceBoy yes sir

Ice Boy

user46190

@IceBoy will never forget the Tyree catch...i was going bonkers. and my claim was that, "you'll never see this again."

user46190

and dare I say that the dallas cowboys are the biggest surprise in the NFL this season...

Ice Boy

@edmastermind29 yep, that was history in the making

Oct 10 at 17:45, by Stack Exchange

Q: Sabermetrics Applied to American Football, Specifically the NFL

Sabermetrics and advanced stats have become a big part of baseball in the recent years. Defensive shifts are growing rapidly. "Old School" stats are becoming less relevant compare to "New School" stats. This has trickled into the NBA, with the Houston Rockets starting to make organizational de...

american-football statistics nfl sabermetrics

this^ looks interesting

Sabermetrics

Sabermetrics is the term for the empirical analysis of baseball, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research. It was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and is often considered its most prominent advocate and public face. == General principles == The Sabermetric Manifesto by David Grabiner (1994) begins: Bill James defined sabermetrics as "the search for objective knowledge about baseball." Thus, sabermetrics attempts to answer objective questions about baseball...

SAFR?

"I guess it all comes down to replication. It is easy to replicate anything in a baseball game but football is random set of dominoes" great comment

there will NEVER be another helmet catch against a perfect record team in a superbowl

wax eagle

1:41 PM

@IceBoy that's not the problem.

Ice Boy

what is?

wax eagle

(SABRmetrics doesn't care how you caught it). The problem is that baseball is discrete. Football isn't

there are a limited number of states of a baseball game. Football is much more complicated

user46190

@IceBoy I agree. Well....static vs. dynamic set of possibilities as @waxeagle is referring to

wax eagle

People are workign on WPA for football, but it's hard

Ice Boy

what is that?

user46190

1:44 PM

@IceBoy win probability added?

wax eagle

@IceBoy win probability added

user46190

i wonder if field goals can be measured sabermetrically :P

Ice Boy

do either of you use this site advancedfootballanalytics.com

user46190

@IceBoy ive seen and used it before, yes

Ice Boy

any good?

user46190

1:52 PM

@IceBoy i think its good. i believe it's a great attempt at "advanced" statistics. i don't have much more of an opinion beyond that.

user46190

stafford's been sacked 24 times this season? no wonder he's underachieving...

Ice Boy

he's running for his life :-)

from those who want his skull

user46190

@IceBoy yea he is. kaepernick is 2nd at 19 sacks...but that actually makes sense

user46190

@IceBoy and know anyone who would patrol that???

Ice Boy

user46190

1:55 PM

the NFC south sucks

Ice Boy

there is always one division like that every year

user46190

@IceBoy true. im surprised carolina is winning that division tho

Ice Boy

they made a big slash when they first came into the league

user46190

@IceBoy uh huh. so did the jags.

Ice Boy

i went out and bought a team jacket :(

user46190

1:58 PM

@IceBoy ha!

Stack Exchange

3:09 PM

Q: Have two bottom seeds ever faced off before in a "World Series?"

Tomorrow, the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals will "face off" in the (baseball) World Series. They were both wild cards in their respective leagues, meaning that this will be a match between two bottom seeds (after the wild card round). A few years ago, I pointed out this almost ...