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They've been cheating since 2007. There's another entry in the blog that shows players mysteriously fumbled less often once they became a patriot and then fumble rates skyrocketed once they left the pats. A deflated ball is easier to catch but also easier to secure and less likely to fumble.
The more experience a QB gets, the less likely he will fumble. The more the QB gets sacked, the more a team fumbles. The Patriots don't get sacked. Since 2007 the Patriots were among the best in protecting their QB. Except in 2013 when Brady was sacked 40 times and had 10 fumbles.
Can a scientific approach be made to this deflated football deal?
Filled(who knows how much moisture introduced: ambient conditions inside the ball) and officially verified/inspected in the heated locker room and stored to acclimate to the heated facilities before game time.
Now take these balls into the much cooler temperatures and cool the trapped air inside the ball.
The pressure is physically going to drop inside the ball to what it was in the heated facilities it was aired and stored prior to the game.
Not to mention the humidity levels inside the ball are going to rise. High humidity( a lot of moisture in the air) is a low pressure zone.
Your car tires are a perfect example of cooling and heating air that is trapped inside.
Drive your car. Feel your tire immediately after highway travel. It is warm but not hot to the touch.
A car tire can gain or lose 5-lbs. of pressure in a 30º-f change in temperature.
Remember pressure is not volume the air occupies, as it is heated and cooled.
Deflate-gate belongs in the Sports Forum...not Politics.
They would have to be tested under the same conditions and I believe it's been established they weren't, also note that the patriots balls were already near the lower threshold
Secondly since the team is preparing the ball before the official test they may have for example used hot air to fill it. Some would call that cheating but I'd call it bending the rules.
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Can a scientific approach be made to this deflated football deal?
Filled(who knows how much moisture introduced: ambient conditions inside the ball) and officially verified/inspected in the heated locker room and stored to acclimate to the heated facilities before game time.
Now take these balls into the much cooler temperatures and cool the trapped air inside the ball.
The pressure is physically going to drop inside the ball to what it was in the heated facilities it was aired and stored prior to the game.
Not to mention the humidity levels inside the ball are going to rise. High humidity( a lot of moisture in the air) is a low pressure zone.
Your car tires are a perfect example of cooling and heating air that is trapped inside.
Drive your car. Feel your tire immediately after highway travel. It is warm but not hot to the touch.
A car tire can gain or lose 5-lbs. of pressure in a 30º-f change in temperature.
Remember pressure is not volume the air occupies, as it is heated and cooled.
That's about 1/2 pound worth of change. The balls were 2 pounds below the lower limit. The balls were tampered with. The NFL was tipped in advance that the Patriots do this and they were looking for it.
Can a scientific approach be made to this deflated football deal?
Filled(who knows how much moisture introduced: ambient conditions inside the ball) and officially verified/inspected in the heated locker room and stored to acclimate to the heated facilities before game time.
Now take these balls into the much cooler temperatures and cool the trapped air inside the ball.
The pressure is physically going to drop inside the ball to what it was in the heated facilities it was aired and stored prior to the game.
Not to mention the humidity levels inside the ball are going to rise. High humidity( a lot of moisture in the air) is a low pressure zone.
Your car tires are a perfect example of cooling and heating air that is trapped inside.
Drive your car. Feel your tire immediately after highway travel. It is warm but not hot to the touch.
A car tire can gain or lose 5-lbs. of pressure in a 30º-f change in temperature.
Remember pressure is not volume the air occupies, as it is heated and cooled.
And Luck has all the balls he uses put in front of the heaters in order to make them harder because he likes a hard ball.
If the patriots broke the rules, so did the Colts.
That's about 1/2 pound worth of change. The balls were 2 pounds below the lower limit. The balls were tampered with. The NFL was tipped in advance that the Patriots do this and they were looking for it.
You are flat wrong.
Science experiments making the ball wet and lowering the ball 25 degrees show a nearly 2 PSI drop.
Experiments that say that there can't be a 2 PSI drop ignore that there was heavy rain and ignorantly keep the balls dry. Wet leather expands, which means more volume with the same amount of air = lower pressure (PSI).
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