The Equity Market is in Trouble... J-E-T-S Edition

Floyd Norris (via The Big Picture):

Consider the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 in 1969, the year the Jets won their only Super Bowl. It was down 11.4 percent.

Contrast that to the market’s performance after victories by any of the other teams still in contention. The market has never gone down after any of them won the Super Bowl.

Since:

A) The market has "always" gone down when the Jets win
B) The Jets will win (warning: the last time I was this confident they lost by more than 40)
C) The market will go down

Or something like that...

Game Day!

Although the J-E-T-S are underdogs in Foxboro this evening (I see a 3.5 point line) and without Jim Leonard (the Jets secondary defensive play caller), I am ready for them to ROLL (or at least significantly BEAT DOWN) the Pats....

Score?

27-17

Nice Uggs Brady...



Best of luck GYSC!

Update: Yikes... That was ugly, but there must be some economic parallel here somewhere.

Source: Refinery 29

What Parity?

Reader Tom Lindmark asked:

Now graph the Won/Lost record so far this season. It kind of looks like money can't buy you not only love but wins in the NFL.

I responded that the season was too young (though the Buc and Chiefs both have two wins in this young season, while the Cowboys and Vikings have none). What I did put together was 2010 payroll vs. 2009 win total, which presents a slightly different perspective... perhaps those teams that won in 2009 were more likely to spend in 2010.



Source: ProFootballTalk

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In response to my post Sanchez Leads J-E-T-S Past Bengals Eric Hirschberg (a statistician) commented:

I had to laugh at a histogram with a sample size of 4 and a data range from 1 to 2! This is data that really doesn't benefit from graphic visualization. :)

Agreed... and my response:

That won't stop me from updating it with every J-E-T-S win.

And after an INSANE win (Chargers are [were?] the best team in the league in my opinion), here is the update....



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Sanchez Leads J-E-T-S Past Bengals

Yahoo Sports details:

One playoff game into his career, Mark Sanchez is giving a pretty good off-Broadway performance.

So are the rest of the New York Jets, who are no longer an overlooked team after dismantling the AFC North champions twice within a week.

Any more doubters?

With their rookie quarterback playing mistake-free, the Jets turned their surprising playoff appearance into a long-running production Saturday. Sanchez threw a touchdown pass, and the NFL’s top running game took it from there, setting up a 24-14 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.

Sanchez looked like a playoff pro, joining Shaun King, Joe Flacco and Ben Roethlisberger as rookie quarterbacks to win postseason starts. At times, Sanchez found himself on the sideline soaking it all in.

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Will this post be relevant for 99% of you? Doubt it, but please tell me there are some Jets fans (or at least NFL fans) who read this blog...

Do the Jets deserve to be in the playoffs?

While there are plenty of critics that state no (to "sneak" into the playoffs they beat the Colts who rested their starters, followed by the Bengals who had already locked up a wild card playoff spot), I believe they do. Having ended the season winners of 5 of 6, they played the Colts tight (a one possession game when the Colts gave up) and blew the Bengals out even when their starters were playing. In addition, over the full course of the season they allowed the least number of points in the league, led the league in total rushing, AND were 7th in the league in point differential (points scored less allowed).

And that relationship (point differential) was a remarkably accurate predictor of teams that would make the playoffs (top 10 all made it).



But, to sums things up lets go to Av Sinesky of The Vertex:

As I walked back to the car after the game, I received an email from my dad. "Cold day in hell arrives," he wrote, ending off a regular season that I had insisted early on would be defined as distinct from those my father had endured. This team with a bold new head coach, a dazzling rookie quarterback, and a tenacious defense, were not my father's Jets. And although they spent much of the season trying to prove me wrong, in the end, they vindicated me. My father's Jets would have been a team that despite leading the league in defense and rushing, would have missed the playoffs. But these Jets made the playoffs despite having a rookie coach and a mistake-prone rookie quarterback and despite having an 0-5 record in games decided by fewer than five points. My father's Jets would have been a team that missed the playoffs despite starting out 3-0; these Jets made the playoffs despite a mediocre 4-6 record heading into the home stretch. My father's Jets would have apologized for a lucky break; these Jets realize they have nothing to be sorry for.

Source: ESPN