New NFL stat - "MLB equivalent"?
One of my favorite broadcasters, Chris Marlowe, often described fellow USA Volleyball team captain Karch Kiraly's spikes as "130 MPH heater comin' at ya!" I had always assumed the metric to be universal - sports apparently now has its own system of weights and measurements, unique across platforms.
While watching ESPN's telecast of the Chiefs/Texans game, I noticed a new stat apparently being tracked when showing the "Pass Tracker" replay for a Trent Green TD pass to Eddie Kennison. The graphic indicated the ball speed/velocity of Green's hurl as "91 MPH (MLB Equivalent)". Exactly what does this mean? Trent can chuck the pigskin pretty hard, but the pass didn't seem to be THAT fast.
Does such connote Peter Parker's "proportionate strength of a spider"? Or are we scaling our measurements of athletic feats Micro Machines style?
While watching ESPN's telecast of the Chiefs/Texans game, I noticed a new stat apparently being tracked when showing the "Pass Tracker" replay for a Trent Green TD pass to Eddie Kennison. The graphic indicated the ball speed/velocity of Green's hurl as "91 MPH (MLB Equivalent)". Exactly what does this mean? Trent can chuck the pigskin pretty hard, but the pass didn't seem to be THAT fast.
Does such connote Peter Parker's "proportionate strength of a spider"? Or are we scaling our measurements of athletic feats Micro Machines style?
posted by Jason Salas @ 2:02 PM
1 Comments:
At November 22, 2005 1:25 AM,
Jon said…
I have seen people do softball MLB equivelent speeds because the softball mound is closer to the plate. The batter has 1.5seconds(or whatever) to react to the ball and that is the same amount of time a MLB player has to react to a 95 mph fastball. Could be that or it could be something else :)
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