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How Does Temperature Affect Road Teams? (And Dome Teams in Particular?)
A few years ago I looked at how well teams from various climates types played when visiting other climate types. The most remarkable result was that dome teams win only about 20% of the time when...
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Weather Effects on Passing
My last post looked at the effect of temperature on home field advantage. We saw that cold weather put dome and warm climate teams at a disadvantage. The post was titled How Does Temperature Affect...
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Temperature and Field Goals
As a pilot, I'm familiar with the effects of weather on things hurtling through the air. Many people intuitively sense hot, humid air as thicker and heavier, but the opposite is true. Warm air, as we...
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Altitude and Field Goals
Last season I looked at the effect of temperature on field goal success and saw that a 30-degree difference is approximately worth 5 yards of kick distance. A 40-yard attempt in 30 degree weather is...
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Fumble Rate by Temperature
The title says it all. With Sunday's night's fumble fest in the books, I thought I'd take a quick and dirty look at how cold temperature affects fumbling. It was 19 degrees in Foxboro when I checked...
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Deflate-Gate and PV/T=k
This Deflate-Gate controversy had me thinking about 9th grade chemistry and wondering about the effect of temperature on the balls. I saw that CAR kicker Graham Gano recently tweeted that he is often...
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