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I think Shaw haters should agree not to focus on 2020 being a year without a bowl if Shawpologists can agree not to cite a year with a winning record. The fact is that was not a full season, so trying to use it as a major data point for or against Shaw is a stretch. I try to use it only as one data point in a three year span, and the least meaningful at that. It really goes too far to call it a .667 winning percentage in any sort of comparative sense with past years. A 4-2 season is not the same thing as an 8-4 season. The way 2020 played out should make that intuitive - we were tremendously lucky in a few of those games and it is highly plausible (computer algorithms would say likely) that there would have been somewhat of a reversion to the mean the rest of the year as that was not all that good of a team.

I agree with this.  The sample size (6 games) is much smaller than a regular season.  The season was marred by COVID, which interferes with practices, games, scheduling, everything. The schedule wasn’t balanced. The whole season was a mess, so trying to extrapolate anything out of it, good or bad, is fruitless.

Probably best to say that Stanford football has had a two yeara of very poor play surrounding a COVID-marred season.

BC

[BostonCard]

I think Shaw haters should agree not to focus on 2020 being a year without a bowl if Shawpologists can agree not to cite a year with a winning record. The fact is that was not a full season, so trying to use it as a major data point for or against Shaw is a stretch. I try to use it only as one data point in a three year span, and the least meaningful at that. It really goes too far to call it a .667 winning percentage in any sort of comparative sense with past years. A 4-2 season is not the same thing as an 8-4 season. The way 2020 played out should make that intuitive - we were tremendously lucky in a few of those games and it is highly plausible (computer algorithms would say likely) that there would have been somewhat of a reversion to the mean the rest of the year as that was not all that good of a team.

I agree with this.  The sample size (6 games) is much smaller than a regular season.  The season was marred by COVID, which interferes with practices, games, scheduling, everything. The schedule wasn’t balanced. The whole season was a mess, so trying to extrapolate anything out of it, good or bad, is fruitless.

Probably best to say that Stanford football has had a two yeara of very poor play surrounding a COVID-marred season.

BC