Evaluating Adrian Peterson’s Likelihood of Decline, Part III

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Evaluating Adrian Peterson’s Likelihood of Decline, Part III

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Interesting read, especially for number junkies. Worth going back to read the first two articles as well.

http://vikingsterritory.com/2015/analys ... part-three
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dead_poet wrote:Interesting read, especially for number junkies. Worth going back to read the first two articles as well.

http://vikingsterritory.com/2015/analys ... part-three

I'm going to guess based on the title and your post, that this is an article by Arif Hasan.
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Mothman wrote:
I'm going to guess based on the title and your post, that this is an article by Arif Hasan.
Why do you say that? It's by Brad Davis, FYI.


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dead_poet wrote:Interesting read, especially for number junkies. Worth going back to read the first two articles as well.

http://vikingsterritory.com/2015/analys ... part-three
The articles are definitely interesting.

That said, Peterson is so unique in so many ways that anything could happen. Whatever it is, I'll believe it when I see it.
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frosted wrote:Why do you say that? It's by Brad Davis, FYI.
But it was introduced by by Arif so I wasn't completely off target. :)

I made the comment because Arif Hasan seems very into analytics. He seems to have a great deal of faith in, and enthusiasm for, deep statistical analysis so I simply thought it was a good guess. I was just having some fun. :)

The conclusions they arrived at were pretty interesting.
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Mothman wrote: But it was introduced by by Arif so I wasn't completely off target. :)

I made the comment because Arif Hasan seems very into analytics. He seems to have a great deal of faith in, and enthusiasm for, deep statistical analysis so I simply thought it was a good guess. I was just having some fun. :)

The conclusions they arrived at were pretty interesting.
Ahh gotcha, it was a decent read, though I won't claim to have read the whole thing, at a certain point, analytics/advanced statistics just start to look like Mandarin to me. Hahaha.


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frosted wrote:Ahh gotcha, it was a decent read, though I won't claim to have read the whole thing, at a certain point, analytics/advanced statistics just start to look like Mandarin to me. Hahaha.
:lol: I know exactly what you mean.
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I think if he realizes he can't run like he does past a certain point (wherever that is for him), he could easily change his body and running style and still be very productive well into his 30s.
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Demi wrote:I think if he realizes he can't run like he does past a certain point (wherever that is for him), he could easily change his body and running style and still be very productive well into his 30s.
I doubt many running backs are capable of changing their running style.
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