Does Football Need More Statistics?

Baseball has always been a game of numbers. Fans of the game have grown up being able to recite them by heart; Ted Williams’.406 batting average, Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak, Babe Ruth’s 714 home runs. These numbers hold a special place in the history of the game. Statistics such as batting average, wins, home runs, and runs batted in have always been there to tell us who the best players are. Your favorite player has a .300 batting average? He’s an all-star. He hit 40 home runs and batted in 120 runs? That’s a Most Valuable Player Award candidate. Your favorite team’s best pitcher won 20 games? He’s a Cy Young Award contender. These statistics have been used to evaluate player performance

Football is probably a good opposite from baseball with these topics. The first being the leadership involved in the sport. Every football team chooses their captains to lead their teams. The captains are athletic, mature, vocal, and enthusiastic. The captains that are chosen are basically semi-coaches and are huge role models for the younger guys coming into the program. Games are many times won by their captains leading their team through an entire game both verbally and physically. A football team without captains is not a football team at

War can be defined as “an active struggle between competing entities. It’s truly hard to tell who is right or wrong during a war. Both sides are fighting for what they believe in and what is true to their heart. In the end there is always two things promised – destruction and death. These two objects can explain the result in every facet of war from the physical to emotional.

The hitter’s full performance is fully encompassed by the OPS statistic because of the inclusion of the slugging percentage to the formula. Winning means scoring more than the other team and a team cannot win unless they are getting on base. Therefore, the team that gets more bases has a better chance of winning, but OPS is sometimes left up to factors out of the control of players such as varying sizes of stadiums. To neutralize variables not in control of the hitter, Sabermetricians developed OPS+. The league average OPS+ will always be 100, so if a player’s OPS+ rating is 100 he is an average player. Calculating OPS+ is slightly more difficult to than OPS.

America’s pastimes are Football and Baseball, which are similar yet vastly different. Enough though Baseball and football may require some of the same talents they are also different in many ways.

War has been present throughout history and plays a major role in power, politics, and glory.

Q1. Describe the traditional "Old Guard" system of identifying and selecting baseball players. What were its primary shortcomings?

War can be defined as armed conflict between nations or states or even different groups within a nation or state. All these wars, approximately 14,000 in the past 5,000 years, take innocent civilians away from their family, home, what they know for months or even years at a time. Often times the conditions these individuals are living in while at war are far from the normal life they previously lived. Vets often see and have to do certain task that no human being should be required to do. Leaving behind a lot of mental repairing to do once back home. Once a war comes to an end, these civilians are thrown back into a culture they have been away from for months, even years with little to no direction on where to start to build their lives again.

A professional baseball player once said that “ its a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit it square”. This is one of the reasons that baseball is a not just the best sport it is the hardest. Although some people believe that football is the best sport the reality is that baseball is the best sport that is around today. There are way more games in baseball than any other sport. In bleacher reports article their they say that their are 162 baseball games in one season and that is 6 months of baseball the NBA is 82 games a season and the NFL is only 16 games a season.

By dictionary definition, war is a state of armed conflict between societies generally characterized by extreme aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. For centuries, war has been used to resolve conflict, but it also has been used to create chaos. In the 70's for example, there was a big revolution against the Vietnam war. As a result of this "double standard" many individuals have multiple opinions about war and its purposes. In the two pieces "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen and "Who's for the Game?" by Jesse Pope, each poet emulates war in various points of views to produces different effects on their readers.

There are people who believe war must happen to make a great change to better a country. People believe that the soldiers are brave and that they are doing heroic acts, the war will save them from the unrest within their own country, and that additional territory will be granted to them. War seems to be the answer to a lot of peoples’ questions. It plays an important role in America’s government and in their political standpoint.

There is people on both sides of this sport and believe strongly in their opinion. But if people think that football is the only problem then they should take a look at every other sport. Anything that involves physical activity should have equipment modifications then if that is the way people want to look at things. Football is one of the most worldwide played sports in the world. So many people look forward to this sport and it is their whole life. This current state of football is what it should stay at. Also whatever injuries that are happen to come up are usually during transition periods of gameplay. Like practices, or coming back to preseason, not during actual football games. Which is actually really surprising to me that these crazy injuries that you see in movies and stuff always happen during football games. When in reality it often happens during the transition periods. Football should not be changed because if people want to change this sport than it is only fair to change every other sport that has a high amount of injuries. People keep complaining about just football when look at a sport like basketball. There are tons of injuries that happen to these basketball players that are seriously dangerous. There are sprains these players get that can do some serious ligament damage. Just keep football the way it is and meant to be played. Rough and wild, because

War: a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state. War is not just a fight between two organized groups, it is a living hell where people decide if they are going to live or die. The horrors of war are manifested with great detail and imagery in All Quiet on the Western Front, “The Hollow Men”, and In the Field.

Television revenue is now big business in sports today with television networks paying large amounts of money to secure the right to broadcast sporting events. The Super Bowl (which is the championship game in the NFL) is consistently the highest rated broadcast every year, which allows the lucky network to charge ungodly amounts of money in advertising. The NFL and MLB both enjoy large television contracts although their revenue sharing plans are quite different. The NFL currently receives 2.2 billion dollars a year in television revenue, which amounts to 73 million per year per team. MLB currently receives 340 million dollars per year in television revenue, which is divided up among the teams in a formula so complicated that you need understand quantum-physics and theoretical mathematics just to gain a rudimentary understanding of the distribution structure. These numbers are interesting in that there are less football teams to televise which means that the NFL must garner obscene ratings to demand that much money. Baseball games are on almost every night on a variety of different channels and ratings can be considered dismal when placed in comparison to the NFL. I believe the main reason for the ratings difference is season length. The NFL season is so short and every game means so much that the drama level is much higher when compared to the daily rhythm of 162 baseball games where losing one or two

What a great comparative concept to use the Kirkpatrick model to athletics and sports. It is a practice that should be adopted more, especially in professional sports on down! We always wonder why the same teams, year after year have a bad season, and it may be because of financial or contract constraints, organization atmosphere, or it just my be that they do not feel that evaluation is important for their structure. If they would stop focusing on the W/L's, projected talent, and their bottom line, start investing more time into developing their players, they just might could get somewhere.