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tworoosters

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Punting averages still wrong.

March 28, 2011 at 02:28PM View BBCode

In the first half of the [url=http://footballbeta.simdynasty.com/boxscore.jsp?boxscoreid=2136]conference final[/url] Ed Kercheval has three punts:63 yards(touchback), 28 and 71(touchback) but the boxscore shows him with a 41.7 yard average and a longest punt of 54 yards.

Even if you deduct the touchback yardage, which you shouldn't, it's wrong as the average then would be 40.7 and the longest 51 . Maybe the rounding accounts for the average but certainly not the miscalculation of the longest.

Admin

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March 28, 2011 at 06:41PM View BBCode

It's cropping at the goal line and then deducting touchback yardage, so if a 70 yard punt takes the ball 5 yards into the end zone, it's recorded as 45 yards.

Researching this, it looks like this example punt should be recorded as a 65 yard punt, and to avoid confusion it should also be reported as a 65 yard punt even if the ball travels farther.

(I have not been able to find a good source for actual stat-keeping rules, and they are not in my printed copy of the ruleboog which only covers on-field rules.)

--Chris

[Edited on 3-28-2011 by Admin]

Admin

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March 28, 2011 at 07:02PM View formatted

Here's another problem in the stats: Yards added by bouncing weren't being accounted for.

--Chris