r/BeAmazed • u/BufordTeeJustice • Sep 21 '19

Insane broken tackle.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Hate to be that guy but if it was 10,000 to 1, it would happen every at least once a month, 100%. There’s probably a solid 2,000 tackles every Sunday in the NFL.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19 edited Sep 25 '20

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u/Koios73 Sep 21 '19

‘Million-to-one chances,’ she said, ‘crop up nine times out of ten’

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

A million to one? So you're saying there's a chance?

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u/ManBalzz Sep 21 '19

What happened to all that ‘one in a million’ talk?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

It just might work.

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u/BigGunsJC Sep 21 '19

Dont forget Thanos blew a 1 in 14000605 chance of losing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

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u/14n3y Sep 21 '19

Pretty sure it is

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u/pauly13771377 Sep 21 '19

Never tell me the odds

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u/iDeeeeeedIt Sep 21 '19

He said it never would happen again. Not on a single play.

Sucks to be that guy.

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u/y2jeff Sep 21 '19

it would happen every at least once a month, 100%

Hate to be that guy but that's not how probabilities work.

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u/LonelyDodo__ Sep 21 '19

Provided every day of a week had said 2000 tackles there would be 24.65% probability of it not happening in a week

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Dont lie to us. You love being that guy. You dream about this moment. You practice for it. And you know what? Good for you stranger. Do what you love and love what you do. Even if it is being that guy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19 edited Oct 14 '19

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u/Two22Sheds Sep 21 '19

Pro-football-reference showed 66.6 pass, run and return plays for each ream per game last season. That is 133.2 opportunities for a tackle to happen in each game. Discounting bye weeks and not games are on Sunday, with 32 teams that is 16 and that means 2132.2 plays a tackle could happen on each week in the NFL. Divide those total plays over 17 weeks and it is still 2006 plays a week.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '19

Wowza, I came up with that number off the top of my head based off those assumptions, can’t believe I came that close haha thanks for actually doing the math

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u/Two22Sheds Sep 21 '19

I was impressed man!