We collected data on player injuries for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 football seasons, those in question for the bounty scandal. Each week, teams publicly list a pregame injury report that catalogs every player who might have his performance affected by injury in that weekend's game. Collecting all of those reports provides fairly complete information regarding the timing and severity of player injuries.

With these lists, one can roughly pinpoint when a player was injured by identifying when he is added to an injury report. Though injuries might occur innocently and not technically be "caused" by one's opposition, a team that tends to injure more opponents should stick out in injury reports.

If the Saints tended to injure more players, then teams that played them would tend to list more injuries the following week. To test whether the Saints injured more players than a typical team, one need only compare the number of players added to injury reports after a Saints game to the league-wide average.

Did the New Orleans Saints injure more players?

The data-driven answer is a resounding "no." The Saints appear to have injured far fewer players over the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons.

It's about time someone in the media brings up this point. Where's the list of players sent to the hospital after playing us the past three seasons. Hmmmmmm?????

Beyond that, where's the proof any money ever exchanged hands?

Exactly. No one is denying a system was in place and punishments need to be handed down, but by george let's see this so-called "evidence" to justify the excessive penalty's that Goodell is dishing out at will. I feel like a lot of others that the system we had in place was much the same that other teams run and it wasn't to the degree that it has been made out to be. That's what pisses me off. If we were doing what they say we were doing then show us the evidence to prove it.