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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Offs.
i didn't take out Skyy's catch. i simply stated that without that one big catch, the WR room did exactly what they did last week. Well, to be absolutely precise, this week they caught 8 more yards this week.
And your grasp of statistics is apparently not the greatest.
Here's an example:
WR "X" catches 10 balls in a game. The first 9 balls he catches for 1 yard a piece, for a total of 9 yards/9 catches. On the 10th catch, he catches another 1-yard ball, but runs for 89 yards.
So, player X has 10 catches for 99 yards.
Is his average/catch really 9.9 yards?
Of course not. No one with a brain would believe that.
And that's why you get rid of the outlier datapoints. otherwise, you easily can end up with completely skewed results.
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Well, first, yes, his average/catch would be 9.9. That’s a fact.
“And that’s why you get rid of the outlier data points.” Uhm, wrong. Because who defines outlier? Did Pachecho rush for 12/95yds (7.9ypc) or do we just take out his 39yd run and then it’s 4.7ypc? What if it were a 29yd run? Would that then be okay to add in?
I guess Barry Sanders was just a really average running back if you just took out all of his explosive plays. That’s definitely the right way to look at it.