Success of "fastest" WRs since '00

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(04-13-2018, 05:37 PM)XsandOs Wrote: Limiting sample size by a cutoff point (Year 2000 and above, 4.3, etc.) can help make an argument, but provides an incomplete picture.  

Actually, pretty much all talk about 40 time is cut off by 2000 (or rather more accurately 1999) because that's when they started using mechanical assistance in timing the 40.

It's why you'll hear tales of Bo Jackson timing 4.12 for his 40. It was just a bunch of guys sitting up in the seats hand timing and it produced wildly different times when you consider that a reaction time difference on start/stop of just 1/10ths of a second each, would turn a 4.3 into a 4.5, or into a 4.1... and that would be 3 guys all timing the same player.

It's also why prior to Ross, Chris Johnson was the "fastest" because he did it in the mechanically timed era, and anything prior to then isn't counted as official towards records.