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Rad racing jim brown blog11/27/2023 “For those that don’t know, back then the NFL Western and Eastern Divisions were very much like we might think of the AFC versus NFC today in regard to scheduling. and we noticed some pretty significant schedule adjustments for NFL quarterbacks in the 1960s. Then, Doug, Chase and I were having some recent discussions about scheduleadjustments. I was generally aware of some imbalance between the NFL Western and Eastern Divisions from the decade of the 1960s. “As some of you may know, I have been doing a lot of work on the early 1960s in regard to my AFL versus NFL series. So where does the Simpson’s reference come in? It is referring to Simpson’s paradox, first discussed by Doug back in this post. “Jim Taylor has a pretty impressive rushing average (that would equate to averaging over 1,300 rushing yards over a modern 16 game season, for six seasons), but we see that Jim Brown’s numbers are other-worldly, and far in excess of Taylor’s numbers. ![]() We have rushing game logs back to the 1960 season, and Jim Brown retired after the 1965 season. “Here are the per game rushing yards for Jim Taylor and Jim Brown from the 1960-1965 regular seasons. lists the Simpson paradox, here is a little snippet: Yet when people speak of Brown, they act as if he would dominate any era but when speaking of Taylor the talk is about how great Green Bay’s line was and the fact that he only went against “slow white guys.” He was going against the same competition as Brown. Taylor was second to Brown all of those years in terms of production. The one year he didn’t guess who did? Jim Taylor of the Green Bay Packers. ![]() ![]() He led the league in rushing for most of his career. He had a great combination of speed and power, and the Cleveland Browns utilized his ability to the fullest. Jim Brown is often referred to as the best running back of all time.
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