01-06-2022, 12:59 PM
(01-06-2022, 12:48 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: SITUATIONAL PENALTIES ARE STILL PENALTIES.
You admitted yourself that situation penalties are "the real killer". What am I missing here?
Perhaps I am not being clear here. Situational penalties referring to a penalty that brings back a long touchdown, or a 55 yard pass interference penalty on a game deciding drive. Those are the ones that hurt you the most but they are also generally rare. As a whole, though, penalties don't seem to affect winning percentage much. A penalty that brings back a touchdown isn't the same as a false start on 1st and 10, on 3rd and 2 or even a holding in any of those situations. Good teams can overcome those penalties.
What Fred and I are talking about is the correlation between team victories and total penalties that have been called against them. Can you look at penalties and get a rough idea of how good that team was for that season, or even figure out who won that particular game? The answer is no, you can't. Penalties don't correlate to team record.
