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04 Mar 2010

Cowboys Consistently Among League's Healthiest Teams

There's a very nice guest post at Blogging The Boys by "one.cool.customer", comparing our AGL metric to Rick Gosselin's injury research.

In other SBNation news, I'll be doing a chat at Bolts from the Blue tomorrow at 2:00, discussing the Chargers' offseason plans.

Posted by: Bill Barnwell on 04 Mar 2010

8 comments, Last at 27 Mar 2010, 4:45am by sports-veronica

Comments

Re: Cowboys Consistently Among League's Healthiest Teams

by Dan :: Thu, 03/04/2010 - 3:59am

The two injury measures are correlated at r = 0.76 for the amount of injuries in a single season, and at r = 0.82 for the three-year average.

Re: Cowboys Consistently Among League's Healthiest Teams

by DeltaWhiskey :: Thu, 03/04/2010 - 7:07am

Bill doesn't care about correlations - just kneel to win baby.

Re: Cowboys Consistently Among League's Healthiest Teams

by Karl Cuba :: Thu, 03/04/2010 - 11:07am

Gosslein's chart that shows that half the teams that have won the superbowl have had significant injuries but if you disregard the patriots wins (I think they cheated, you may disagree) then the claim looks less substantial.

Re: Cowboys Consistently Among League's Healthiest Teams

by tuluse :: Thu, 03/04/2010 - 11:20am

If you remove all the patriots wins, it's still 3/9.

However, looking at just 1 game like that is silly. Looking at both participants or all the teams in the conference champions ships would be a lot more useful.

Re: Cowboys Consistently Among League's Healthiest Teams

by Independent George :: Thu, 03/04/2010 - 12:03pm

Since AGL is based on games missed, is it possible that a team with solid backups is more likely to bench an injured starter than a team that is still better off playing the starter even if both his legs were amputated?

I also wonder if the 'A' in AGL is also skewing the numbers - after all, the top teams necessarily have more quality players, so even if their raw injury rates were the same, the Pats would have a higher AGL than the Lions.