San Diego Chargers Fans on Oakland Raiders B/R Page Trying To Fire Us Up

July 31, 2010   ·   Damali Binta YAEL   ·   Jump to comments

There is a motto: Don't mess with Texas.
Apply that to the Oakland Raiders and listen real good: Don't mess with the Oakland Raiders!
Apparently, a Charger fan is posting on the B/R Oakland Raiders' page, and he is trying to shake the confidence of those who do not take the time to look at facts, or to build a math model to describe or forecast what is, what is possible, and what is probable.
Consider this approach to gain some insight:
I will define the following mapping. Let "up" be 3 units and "down" be -2. If there is no change, then use zero. Look at the overall data in win-loss from 2006 to 2009 for both the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders.
The pattern for the Chargers is up, down, down, up
The pattern for the Raiders is down, up, up, no change.
With the assigned weights, the Chargers would have 3 -2-2 + 3 = 2
The Raiders would have -2 + 3 + 3 + 0 = 4.
Using this model to compare stability (short-term), we see that the Oakla...

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