PlayerRep said:
SaskGriz said:
PlayerRep said:
No, the first sentence doesn't contradict itself. Yes, the number hurt is a number. Then it would be used to calculate percentage of players hurt, number of starters or key players, etc. Again, of course, some players get hurt in a game and some/most don't. That is a given in any game, unless there is a game where zero people on a team get hurt in any respect.
Your last sentence of the last para has a typo so it isn't clear what you meant to say.
Yeah that last sentence needed some proof reading. What I meant to say was; By a comparison I didn't MEAN a comparison of various party's opinions, I meant an actual comparison using numbers and data.
Anecdotal stuff doesn't work for this particular discussion;
Jordan Johnson got hurt vs Wyoming, Reese Phillips didn't get hurt against UW
Reese Phillips got hurt vs Savannah State, Jordan Johnson didn't get hurt against Tennessee.
This is all meaningless without number crunching.
I provided some numbers. A ton of people got injured against Oregon. 3 starting qb's in 5 play up games not available for the next game.
Feel free to provide your own numbers that few players get hurt in play up games.
Okay, I only looked at the last 4 Play-Up games; UW(2017), Wyoming(2014), Tennessee(2011) and Iowa(2006).
I looked at who played in the play-up game and then whether they played in the next game and then whether they played in the game after that.
UW - David Shaw missed the blow out over Savannah State but played the week after.
Shane Moody appeared in neither of the next two games, don't know if that was injury or he fell out of favour.
Wyoming- Ben Weyer, Jordan Johnson, John Nguyen all missed the game against Central Washington but were back for South Dakota. Caleb Kidder appeared in neither of the next two games.
Tennessee - Matt Hermanson missed the next game against Cal Poly. Brett Kirschner, Bryce Carver, and Chris Bradford appeared in neither of the next two games. None of these four players were starters.
Iowa - Josh Swogger, David Haile, and Dan Carter missed the next game against SDSU but were back for Sac State (Swogger went 14-18, 221, 3TDS). Tyson Johnson and Chris Dyk did not appear in either of the next two games.
I realise that this doesn't mean that players didn't play hurt. To figure out if this is more or less than injury levels in FCS or play down games would take more effort/time than I can currently give. It seems to me that these levels of injury do not seem particularily high or out of proportion to any given Saturday.