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Just looking at the first three years of Belichick's career with the Patriots...let's say that dumping air out of the ball accounted for 7 points per game advantage...They wouldn't have even made the 2001 and 2002 playoff appearances due to 8-7-1 record in 2001. I didn't even run the full numbers for 2001 since at least 4 games were close enough to be effected, and the divisional race was so close that they would have been at the bottom of the division that year.
Yep...it's ASTERISK time.
edit: It's early and for some reason I was getting the back to back years for the patriots mixed up in my memory. If you look at 2003 though, 6 games would have been affected. I'll do the full research on this later and post data on what their prospective record would have been. Looks like at least 2 Super Bowls at this point are now * games that might not have happened if not for them deflating balls to gain an advantage.
Classy, Patriots!!
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Last edited by Steve Dallas; 01-21-2015 at 11:41 AM.
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