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The Impact of 1st-Round Offensive Linemen: III. What About (a Lack of) Continuity?
Welcome back for Part 3 of my series on how the drafting of Anthony Davis and Mike Iupati might impact the 49ers' statistics in 2010 (and beyond). Just to recap, Part 1 and Part 2 basically came to the same conclusion: Davis and Iupati are likely to be develop into good NFL players fairly quickly,...
The Impact of 1st-Round Offensive Linemen: II. A World of Difference
READER ADVISORY: Explicit statistical content.On Monday, in Part 1 of this series, I outlined the recent NFL history of drafting OLs in the 1st round. In a very superficial way, I also provided some crude statistical expectations for both the 49ers' and their new OLs performance over the next few...
Logarithmic Decay in the NFL Draft: Do Busts Matter?
Welcome back for Part 2 of my pre-draft stat series wherein I attempt to test my own theories about the importance of avoiding busts and finding diamonds in the rough. In Part 1, I took a stab at developing objective definitions for "bust" and "diamond in the rough." Based on an analysis of all NFL...
Logarithmic Decay: How the NFL Draft is Like a Sprite
Anyone familiar with my articles and comments on Niners Nation is well aware of my beliefs about what good teams accomplish in the NFL draft (or what good fantasy football teams accomplish in a fantasy draft; or what good NCAA March Madness pool players accomplish in filling out their brackets)....
Shotgun Wedding: Alex Smith Meets the Offense of His Dreams
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The time I usually devote to team and players stats was instead devoted last week to this very special article I've put together with the help of Aaron Schatz from Football Outsiders (FO). He provided the individual stats for Alex Smith and Shaun Hill, and I did the writing, but...
49ers-Jets Statistical Review: Raining on the Parade
The Niners have won two games in a row. Awesome! We have cause for celebration, right? Well, perusing some of Ninjames's Golden Nuggets this week, I've gotten the feeling that I'm the Grand Marshall of a parade, and it's starting to drizzle. The analysis has gone something like this: "Singletary's...
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