Brady vs. Manning: Complete & Unabridged, Vol. II

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Misusing statistics
Published 7/12/2008 by shake n bake at Stampede Blue: Front Page Posts
... A quick search of the site didn't show a response to this awful piece that I was directed to be 18 to 88's resident Pats fan (it did tell me the site it's from isn't well liked). Cold Hard Football Facts' "The Complete & Unabridged Guide to Why Tom Brady is Better than Peyton Manning vol II. I don't think I've ever seen so much misuse and misleading use of statistics. So I'm going to expand my 18 to 88 response in the style of ...

Really Easy, Really Hard
Published 7/16/2008 by Deshawn Zombie (noreply@blogger.com) at 18 to 88
Thanks to prompting of one of our loyal (re: obnoxious) readers, I undertook a massive endeavor. For too long, the ridiculous Cold Hard Football Facts article entitled The Complete & Unabridged Guide to Why Tom Brady is better than Peyton Manning has been allowed to stand unchallenged. The article was crap. In fact, it was so poorly reasoned that it actually caused me pain to read it. So I took it apart. Piece by crappy piece. Doing so was easy on the one hand. The arguments were thin, the logic was inconsistent, and the facts wrong. On the other hand, there was so much wrong with the article, that by the time I was ...