A novel notion of "balance"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I thought the "balance" referred to the substitution of runners: Ridley had
14 carries, nearly as many as the leading Colts rusher, and Blount had 24.

It is rare that the second most frequent rusher has as many as 14 carries.



DanG


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 1/12/2014 11:46 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> >A headline in the Boston Globe: Patriots relying heavily on balanced
> >running attack
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> >I suppose, there is a way to untangle this so that heavy reliance does
> >not upset the balance. But not at first read...
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> I read the "balanced" as contextualized by "running" -- balanced
> among several types of runs (inside, outside, straight, slant,
> end-around, whatever) rather than monotonic.  I haven't read the
> article nor do I have knowledge of what the Patriots actually ran.
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> Joel
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