I have to say that this Q&A improved my impression of Stanfurd. I have to wonder if the answers were actually written by a Cal Bear? I hope that Cal will beat both Furd and the Berkeley Public Health Department. ..... Wait a sec, is the Berkeley Public Health Department staffed with Furd grads?
heh, heh, heh...That was the best / funniest "Know the Enemy" of the year!! Now I'm even more fired up that 'furd is healthy and ready to play. Gunna be fun to beat these guys.
LOL @ "peak attendance". Nice N=1 (where UCLA undoubtedly did the heavy lifting). Thanks to grade inflation, I'm sure the author would still manage an A- in graduate level statistics at furd.
It's such a horrible example of cherry-picking data. I'd be disappointed if any other school manipulated data, but am not surprised to see it come from Stanfurd fans.
If we want to keep cherry-picking data, we can point at their lowest-attended game (26,410) vs. ours (31,982 for our FCS tune-up).
Or if you just take a look at the numbers overall, compare averages--36,444 for us vs. 33,317 for them. They clearly got a massive boost from local UCLA fans because if you remove each of our most-attended games, our average barely drops (35,483) whereas theirs plummets (28,678).
I'm also going to further point out that Stanford's stadium capacity is reportedly 50,424. Maybe you think I'm choosing a misleading angle... does this look like a stadium with just 3,188 seats free?
I have to say that this Q&A improved my impression of Stanfurd. I have to wonder if the answers were actually written by a Cal Bear? I hope that Cal will beat both Furd and the Berkeley Public Health Department. ..... Wait a sec, is the Berkeley Public Health Department staffed with Furd grads?
heh, heh, heh...That was the best / funniest "Know the Enemy" of the year!! Now I'm even more fired up that 'furd is healthy and ready to play. Gunna be fun to beat these guys.
Reader warning: some of the responses to the QnA as so eDgY you might cut yourself on them.
> We looked it up! Your biggest home crowd this year was 40,286 for the Wazzu game. Ours is 47,236 for the UCLA game.
I knew he was going to say something like this. Here's the camera pan of "47,236" people watching the UCLA game: https://i.imgur.com/o7VuAme.png
LOL @ "peak attendance". Nice N=1 (where UCLA undoubtedly did the heavy lifting). Thanks to grade inflation, I'm sure the author would still manage an A- in graduate level statistics at furd.
It's such a horrible example of cherry-picking data. I'd be disappointed if any other school manipulated data, but am not surprised to see it come from Stanfurd fans.
If we want to keep cherry-picking data, we can point at their lowest-attended game (26,410) vs. ours (31,982 for our FCS tune-up).
Or if you just take a look at the numbers overall, compare averages--36,444 for us vs. 33,317 for them. They clearly got a massive boost from local UCLA fans because if you remove each of our most-attended games, our average barely drops (35,483) whereas theirs plummets (28,678).
I'm also going to further point out that Stanford's stadium capacity is reportedly 50,424. Maybe you think I'm choosing a misleading angle... does this look like a stadium with just 3,188 seats free?
Maybe 22,000?