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TL;DRFair warning: I said I wouldn't let this go... What follows is more numerical proof of what we already know.
If you'd like a little context, check the numbers on Cheater Red Zone Defense in post #1852 of this thread.
Differential Red Zone Offense (DRZO): A ratio that shows how good you are at scoring touchdowns in the red zone compared to all the other offenses that your opponents faced.
Differential Red Zone Penetration (DRZP): A stat that I made up to show how good you are at getting into the red zone. Insert your own joke here.
As with defense, the Cheaters were much better at both before they were caught cheating...
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As with the defense, the Cheaters went from Very Good to Pretty Good when outside of the red zone (the orange bars above).
Also as with the defense, the Cheaters performance lemminged right off a cliff inside the red zone (the blue bars above).
Seriously... On both offense and defense, the Cheaters went from outstanding to very average in Red Zone performance after they had to move the illegally compiled laminates full of illegally obtained information... move them from the sidelines to the press box.
The interesting thing to me is that the numbers changed in such a similar way, but almost certainly for very different reasons. As mentioned in Post #1852, the defense is hampered by offenses that increase their pace inside the red zone, thus making it nearly impossible to get signals from the press box to the field in time. For the cheater offense however, they can take as long as they like. The reason for the huge drop off here comes from just how big their advantage was before they were caught.
In the red zone, the defense has to commit to stopping what they think you're going to do. They have no choice; they have no chance if they don't. The defense has to roll the dice. If you know which direction they are rolling those dice, you can dial up something that will exploit them. Your advantage there is huge. The problem for the Cheaters is that, after they were caught, teams were almost certainly more careful in the red zone to do whatever it took to not get their signs stolen, because the stakes are so much higher there because of the risks the defense has to take in the red zone. Simply not having the advantage of knowing for sure what they were going to do caused them to devolve into no more than what they really were... a little above average.
Main takeaway: More evidence that you did not need... but solid, objective evidence that we can cite whenever we are talking to anyone about this. They cheated. They continued to cheat after they were caught, but it didn't go as well, especially in the red zone. Their title is tainted. That's a cold hard objective fact.
THEY CHEATED!!!
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