Saturday, September 15, 2007
The advantage
No one quite knows what the Pats did with the video in Camera-gate. But watch this video to see how much of an advantage there is to reviewing a video over and over again. ... Many of you have probably already seen the 'colour changing card trick' video. It's pretty amazing. The eye simply doesn't catch things at first glance. That's why the Pats dumped the binoculars for the cameras. The question is who was doing the reviewing over and over again. It probably wasn't the camerman. It almost surely involved two others: one to review the signals, one to match them up to actual on-field plays. ...
Update -- I've since added the 'Belichick's cheating toady' photo, courtsey of the NY Daily News. That doesn't look like your standard Best Buy camera. ...
No one quite knows what the Pats did with the video in Camera-gate. But watch this video to see how much of an advantage there is to reviewing a video over and over again. ... Many of you have probably already seen the 'colour changing card trick' video. It's pretty amazing. The eye simply doesn't catch things at first glance. That's why the Pats dumped the binoculars for the cameras. The question is who was doing the reviewing over and over again. It probably wasn't the camerman. It almost surely involved two others: one to review the signals, one to match them up to actual on-field plays. ...
Update -- I've since added the 'Belichick's cheating toady' photo, courtsey of the NY Daily News. That doesn't look like your standard Best Buy camera. ...
