Michael Thomas is officially the best receiver in football

TheOak · 10-07-2019, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by SaintSproles

You made absolutely no sense.

The grayness is not on my part.

When analyzing stats, it is a best practice to eliminate the outliers. Keeps your judgements from being skewed. When you do that, your argument crumbles. Different QBs, different offensive planning... Not a reliable direct comparison.

Take away yesterdays game and he has 1 TD and 79.3 yards/game with TB which are both less than his 2018 season. He is also on track to get 176 targets which is 27 more than any previous season. Naturally if targets go up total yards should go up and it is more of a result of volume and not increased performance.

Unless, of course, you are prepared to admit that its apples to oranges and the present sample size is too small and too dynamic for statistical reliability?

But hey, if you want to hang your hat on your snapshot then by all means... I am just trying to help.

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TheOak 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Cypress Tx. Posts: 19,056	Re: Michael Thomas is officially the best receiver in football Originally Posted by SaintSproles You made absolutely no sense. The grayness is not on my part. When analyzing stats, it is a best practice to eliminate the outliers. Keeps your judgements from being skewed. When you do that, your argument crumbles. Different QBs, different offensive planning... Not a reliable direct comparison. Take away yesterdays game and he has 1 TD and 79.3 yards/game with TB which are both less than his 2018 season. He is also on track to get 176 targets which is 27 more than any previous season. Naturally if targets go up total yards should go up and it is more of a result of volume and not increased performance. Unless, of course, you are prepared to admit that its apples to oranges and the present sample size is too small and too dynamic for statistical reliability? But hey, if you want to hang your hat on your snapshot then by all means... I am just trying to help.
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