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  1. 07-24-2014, 11:16 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by pbmax View Post
    One point not explicitly made by Stuart but brought up by Brian Burke at Advanced Football Stats, is that because the NFL measures everything rounded to an yard, simple accuracy is missing in a lot of running back yardage stats. When you are trying to decipher whether a drop from a 4.5 ypc to 4.1 is a bad omen, it doesn't help that a lot of the fluctuation could be rounding.
    It could be, but isn't it more likely that rounding would even itself out over the course of a season?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joemailman View Post
    It could be, but isn't it more likely that rounding would even itself out over the course of a season?
    On average, , yes.

    But there are always exceptions.

    The best point the article makes is the even/odd splits. The discrepancy points out that there are WAY too many other factors happening with the YPC stat to use it to judge a RBs performance.
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