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From: devine@asgb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: 4th down choice
Message-ID: <600@asgb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 17:53:22 EST
Article-I.D.: asgb.600
Posted: Thu Dec 13 17:53:22 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:54:42 EST
Reply-To: devine@asgb.UUCP (Bob Devine)
Organization: Burroughs Corporation, Boulder Colo.
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   Senario:  It's fourth down and a loooong way to a first down.
What do you do?  The usual choice is to punt, but how about sending
several (or more) receivers to a spot and attempt a pass?

   The results of selecting such a "mad-bomber" choice are:
	1. one of your receivers DOES catch -- first down
	2. a defender catches it -- same as a punt (in fact the
	   results may be better because there may be no return)
	3. nobody catches it -- no big problem if the line of
	   scrimmage is not too bad (obviously you don't attempt
	   a kamakazi (spelling?) pass within an sight of the
	   endzone)

  Football is a game of percentages (deep!).  Has anybody checked
odds of this strategy?  It would certainly liven up the game.  I
hate punts; they are so predictable.

Bob Devine