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Originally Posted by 30gut
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To each their own. For me you can't simply 'take away' a game. And 3 out 4 wins having a 4.0 ypc seems like a positive correlation to me...but never paid attention in stats class.
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In statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set.
For more information please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier
The Saints game was an outlier, because the score and manhandling was so extreme that the run game nor the pass game alone won or sunk that game. At points, we could have given JR the ball and he would have gotten 5-10 yds.