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Originally Posted by PoorMansCamaro

The report showed the Pats balls had 2-4 minutes to re-inflate while being taken back inside and that it took 5-7 minutes to remeasure. So by your logic of 10 minutes and the air will be back to normal pressure, the last few balls should have been close to 12.5. Ball number 9, 10 and 11 were 10.95/11.35, 10.5/10.90, 10.90/11.35 respectfully. The two measurements were from the 2 different gauges. So they were off by a full pound or more.

So are you saying that had they waiting....11 minutes, that all their balls would have been back up to 12.5 or very close to it?

Comparing wet vs. dry doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Do you have a link that shows the pats balls were wet, and the colts balls were not? I'm pretty sure all the balls were used by halftime, and that they all were under the same conditions. Even if by some miracle the colts were able to keep the 3 or 4 balls that were tested dry, it wouldn't have made a 1lb difference.

Incorrect, where are you getting your facts from? I actually did a research project on this in a Physic's course I did 2 semesters ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate

Besides temperature-based deflation and the timing of the measurements, the condition of a ball's surface (wet vs. dry) also has a small but detectable effect on the measured pressure; there can also be minor measurement error caused by the gauges. During halftime, the referees used two gauges on each ball: the same Non-Logo Gauge that Wells believes to have been used by Anderson before the game to confirm the pre-game pressure, and an additional Logo Gauge. The Logo Gauge appears to consistently run at least 0.35 psi above the (accurately calibrated)[14]:Appendix 1, 45 non-Logo gauge, but both were determined to be extremely consistent and precise. In particular, the Logo gauge is inaccurate (it runs high) but is precise (it consistently runs high by the same amount every time), and therefore can be used as additional confirmation that the non-Logo measurement is correct (with the exception of Colts ball #3, below). Wells believes that Blakeman and Prioleau used the Non-Logo and Logo gauges respectively in the Patriots halftime tests, and that the two of them switched gauges with each other for the Colts halftime test.

Even with the combined effect of wet vs. dry balls, temperature-driven pressure loss from the 50-degree Fahrenheit halftime game weather followed by partial temperature-driven pressure increase inside the warm locker room, and errors in measurement, Wells concluded that, while there is no absolute certainty, there was no studied "set of credible environmental or physical factors that completely accounts" for the total measured pressure loss.[14]:12 and 131

The Exponent science report concluded that no credible environmental or physical factors within the game characteristics fully explain the additional loss of pressure in the Patriots footballs relative to the Colts footballs.[14]:Exponent p68 #13