Quote: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: <span style="font-family:arial;">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

</span>). 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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He doesn't actually remember what gauge was used.


Here is a better understanding direct from Mike Florio (no 'analysis' needed):


"By assuming that the gauge that generates the lower readings was used before the game began, the readings taken by that same gauge at halftime show that one ball was above the predicted range, two were in the predicted range, and eight were below the predicted range. Which is more consistent with the conclusion that some degree of tampering occurred.


So, basically, the scientific proof of tampering hinges on a literal coin flip between the pressure gauge that generated a higher reading and the pressure gauge that generated a lower reading. Apart from the very real problems inherent to the NFL using pressure gauges that generate such dramatically different readings for a key postseason game, the justification used to assume that Walt Anderson used before kickoff the gauge that makes tampering more likely doesn’t feel like the outcome of a scientific experiment. It feels like an effort to work backward to justify a predetermined conclusion.


None of this changes the fact that Larry and Curly exchanged text messages that point to a pattern of tampering during and prior to the 2014 season. None of this changes the fact that Tom Brady a/k/a Moe Howard may have a smoking gun or two lurking somewhere on his cell phone."

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