Quote Originally Posted by pbmax View Post
It NFL geekdom (elsewhere in geekdom as well) this is known as multiple endpoints.

From Advanced NFL Stats in their dissent about the Curse of 370 Carries:

As many posters noticed, if Silverstein had chosen any other scoring gap, it would have defeated his premise. He saw a blip in the data and made a guess as to its cause, without having any evidence to back it up.
Also known as a favorable subset. Take a look at man made global warming statistics....oh shit, I just got the thread booted to FYI.