Quote:What are you trying obfuscate the fact they have been deflating their footballs? What are you going on about gauges for?


"Scientific analysis was performed by Exponent and supported by Dr. Daniel Marlow, a professor of Physics at Princeton University. This analysis concluded that within the range of game conditions and circumstances studied, no set of environmental or physical factors could account for the loss of air pressure exhibited by the Patriots game balls. The scientific study supported the report's conclusion that the loss of air pressure may be accounted for by human intervention."


The guy calls himself 'The Deflator,' for crying out loud and has been since May 2014. You think the one game they got caught was the one game they cheated? Statistical analysis shows this has been goin on for at least 6 yrs.


Brady is a cheat. Period. He paid ball guys with signed memorabilia to deflate his footballs to illegal specs to make it easier to throw, catch and reduce fumbles. That's the long and short of it. Don't know what you think you are arguing.

 

From the text of the report (p 113):


 

"According to Exponent, based on the most likely pressure and temperature values for the Patriots game balls on the day of the AFC Championship Game (i.e., a starting pressure of 12.5 psi, a starting temperature of between 67 and 71 degrees and a final temperature of 48 degrees), the Ideal Gas Law predicts that the Patriots balls should have measured between 11.52 and 11.32 psi at the end of the first half, just before they were brought back into the Officials Locker Room. Most of the individual Patriots measurements recorded at halftime, however, were lower than the range predicted by the Ideal Gas Law. Indeed, once Exponent converted the game day measurements recorded for each gauge into a corresponding “Master Gauge” pressure (in order to provide for a direct comparison with the results predicted by the calculations), the measurements for all but three of the Patriots game balls, as measured by both gauges, were lower than the range predicted by the Ideal Gas Law."


 

But the pressures recorded for the Pats balls at halftime by the same gauge that Anderson remembered using before the game were: 11.8; 11.2; 11.5; 11.0; 11.45; 11.95; 12.3; 11.55; 11.35; 10.9; 11.35 (page 68 of the report

). I can look at those numbers and see that three are below the range predicted by the ideal gas law, four are above the range, and four are within the range. Why would you accept what someone has concluded when you can look at the actual numbers and come to a different conclusion. Do your own analysis!

 

Florio has a good write up explaining things. One thing he explains is why Walt Anderson was not criticized for his failure to test the pressure after the balls went missing.


 

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