Marc Trestman defended his decision to have Robbie Gould try the 47 yard field goal. Again, as pointed out in yesterday's entry, he's falling victim to binary thinking.
If you are in the habit of evaluating 72% chances (as Gould's history of making those kicks are) as 100% chance, there's a pretty bad process of thinking going on.
One man's attempt to glean math lessons from the NFL. While the number of variables are numerous to look at, I'll be attempting to look into simple decisions and the mathematics behind them. If you're a math or statistics teacher, I hope this will be useful for you. Please feel free to use material from this blog in writing lesson plans or for classroom examples. Comments are welcome, please keep them civil.
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Monday, December 2, 2013
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