Stupid Deflategate question

[BigAppleBadger]

If a less inflated ball is easier to throw, catch and hold onto... why don't they just make all the balls in the league less inflated?

 

[TxHeat]

it's not easier to throw. it's less accurate and travels at a slower speed than a fully inflated football.

 

[NEPatsfan]

If a less inflated ball is easier to throw, catch and hold onto... why don't they just make all the balls in the league less inflated?

Stop questioning the narrative of the haters. This will not be tolerated.

 

[R.J. MacReady]

For the hell of it. This a section for a NYT article today. It turns out there was a big miscalculation in testing if balls could become deflated by a natural occurrence

."Other evidence is also turning the Patriots’ way. In a usually obscure profession that has received extraordinary attention during the controversy, some academic and research physicists now concede that they made a crucial error in their initial calculations, using an equation called the ideal gas law.

When that error is corrected, the amount of deflation predicted in moving from room temperature to a 50-degree field is roughly doubled. Healy, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, went further: He measured the pressure drop in 12 footballs when they were moved from a room at 75 degrees to one at 50 degrees (the approximate temperature on the field in the Colts game).

In the experiment, the deflation of the footballs was close to the larger, correctly calculated value. When Healy moistened the balls to mimic the effects of the rainy weather that day, the pressure dropped even further, close to the deflation of 2 pounds per square inch that the N.F.L. is believed to have found.

Still, several loose ends ensure that the controversy is not close to finished. If the Colts’ footballs were properly inflated, as they reportedly were, it might indicate that they were handled differently or inflated more fully to start with. If it turns out that both sets of balls were inflated and handled similarly, the N.F.L. is back to the likelihood that there was tampering by the Patriots."

 

[Fencer]

Also:

The effects of ball deflation counteract another phenomenon, which I imagine has to do with the stiffness of the leather itself. I say this because footballs are said to be harder in cold weather than they are in warm, a point that should be familiar to anybody who recalls the slobbering over Adam Vinateri's Snow Bowl kicks.

So the effect of the lower pressure in making them softer is more than canceled out by some other phenomenon.

 

[fordman84]

If a less inflated ball is easier to throw, catch and hold onto... why don't they just make all the balls in the league less inflated?

Because Aaron rodgers doesn't like them that way, and the NFL caters to him.

 

[Money]

If a less inflated ball is easier to throw, catch and hold onto... why don't they just make all the balls in the league less inflated?

Umm...where's the sport in that???

 

[PatsFan2003]

It's a question of preferences.

 

[WizardHawk]

it's not easier to throw. it's less accurate and travels at a slower speed than a fully inflated football.

It may be slower, but having better grip means it IS easier to throw, particularly when wet.

As for the exact pressure that should be allowed, I'm sure the current zone is a compromise to keep things more or less even and fair on both teams and let those who like it either way have some wiggle room.

 

[Bulletz]

For the hell of it. This a section for a NYT article today. It turns out there was a big miscalculation in testing if balls could become deflated by a natural occurrence

."Other evidence is also turning the Patriots’ way. In a usually obscure profession that has received extraordinary attention during the controversy, some academic and research physicists now concede that they made a crucial error in their initial calculations, using an equation called the ideal gas law.

When that error is corrected, the amount of deflation predicted in moving from room temperature to a 50-degree field is roughly doubled. Healy, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, went further: He measured the pressure drop in 12 footballs when they were moved from a room at 75 degrees to one at 50 degrees (the approximate temperature on the field in the Colts game).

In the experiment, the deflation of the footballs was close to the larger, correctly calculated value. When Healy moistened the balls to mimic the effects of the rainy weather that day, the pressure dropped even further, close to the deflation of 2 pounds per square inch that the N.F.L. is believed to have found.

Still, several loose ends ensure that the controversy is not close to finished. If the Colts’ footballs were properly inflated, as they reportedly were, it might indicate that they were handled differently or inflated more fully to start with. If it turns out that both sets of balls were inflated and handled similarly, the N.F.L. is back to the likelihood that there was tampering by the Patriots."

Can you link this article?

 

[jonvi]

Can a sensor with a wireless feed be placed in footballs so fans watching on TV can view current PSI of the ball being used?

 

[R.J. MacReady]

Can you link this article?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/s...-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

 

[Sgthall999]

Can a sensor with a wireless feed be placed in footballs so fans watching on TV can view current PSI of the ball being used?

Lol!

 

[Bulletz]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/s...-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Ty sir.

 

[PatsFan2003]

Can a sensor with a wireless feed be placed in footballs so fans watching on TV can view current PSI of the ball being used?

I'd rather have a micro-camera so we can see what the ball sees as it approaches it's target.


Now THAT would be way cool!

 

[jonvi]

I'd rather have a micro-camera so we can see what the ball sees as it approaches it's target.


Now THAT would be way cool!

The spinning would kick my ass.

 

[TxHeat]

Because Aaron rodgers doesn't like them that way, and the NFL caters to him.