In the last two weeks, I’ve won more questions about the perceived injustice of the league’s lack of uniform regulations from one stadium to another. We heard The Vikings’ head coach Mike Zimmer and Bills head coach Sean McDermott lament the disadvantages of the competition.

First of all, I don’t think there’s any noticeable difference between betting in front of a stadium on day 5 and betting in front of any crowd. Second, it makes a lot of monetary sense why the league leaves the resolution to individual groups based on local guidelines.

“I think it’s honestly ridiculous that there’s an Array … what turns out to be a playground that’s like that,” McDermott said this week. “Inconsistency throughout the league with the other stadiums outside. What we can fix that has to be our way of thinking and that’s how we attack it.”

As things stand, five groups have announced that they will have enthusiasts in the stands to start the season: Indianapolis, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, Kansas City and Miami. (Four other groups have not yet made their announcement.) By my calculations, none of these five groups will have more than 25 to 30% capacity.

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For my three-game series in the spring, predicting which groups they’re up against lately, I talked to Thomas Dohmen about how the merit of the house box can be affected by few or no enthusiasts in the stands. Dohmen is professor of applied microeconomics at the University of Bonn and one of the main studies on the merit of the house box.

The point he and others have pointed out is that the bias of arbitration has the greatest effect on the merit of the field. In short, in a different way, independent officers make close calls during closed matches for the house team when they are unconsciously influenced by the large crowd around them and surpasses them.

“The referee is more biased if the local public is more likely to put pressure on the referee, the social pressure,” Dohmen told me in April. “So the proximity of the terrain, the mass of the crowd, those points seem to play a role.”

His examination focused on German football, and he discovered that the merit of the field was reduced when there was a track around the field that fans’ officials. No NFL stadium has a track around it, however, this season, all stadiums will have the first six to eight rows marked for publicity. No matter how many enthusiasts there are in the stands, you will now be further from influencing officials.

“The effect of crowd length is negligible,” Dohmen continues. “It’s going in the right direction [for the merit of the camp] but it’s insignificant. What is probably more vital than the length of the crowd, which is also advised through other studies that have tried to reproduce it, is concentration. you have a small stadium full of people that’s probably bigger than a giant stadium with the same amount of people.”

So another 20,000 people in a 20,000-seat stadium have a bigger effect than the other people themselves in a 70,000-seat stadium, which we’ll have this season in some NFL locations.

This is not to say that having few or no enthusiasts will have no effect on the players. As I wrote in the spring, the composition of the team will be important. A player who tends to drown in front of a giant crowd can play better in front of anyone. A player who can slowly time the mix and yet play with a higher “football speed” may have difficulties if no one is around.

Jeff Miller, the NFL’s executive vice president of communications, public affairs and politics, was asked about the perceived competitive imbalance during a call to the convention with journalists this week. To say that he circumvented the point of the consultation would be an educated way of formulating it. Miller did not address the inequalities imaginable, but only stated that the resolution depended on each team and their respective national and local fitness guidelines.

Like everything else, the resolution of allowing groups to make their own resolutions is a matter of money. The more enthusiastic there are in the stands across the country, the lower the wage cap deficit in 2021 and beyond, when all the revenues are calculated for this season. But even off the field, more enthusiasts mean more people can keep their jobs. I wrote last week about how Panthers owner David Tepper has fired at least 30 other people since the start of the pandemic, and others in the advertising aspect of groups across the league have held their collective breathing wondering if they still have one. jobs if the enthusiasts are there. Teams that succeed at their balance point of about 20% of their capacity may reflect the fact that many entertainment/ticket groups will keep their jobs this fall.

The merit of the house box has been reduced over the decades and 2020 offers a wonderful delight for what really motivates it. I don’t think a few thousand more people in a cavernous 6-foot-apart stadium will have an effect on any of the 256 normal effects of the season this year, and I hope the thousands of other people will help team owners. make the decision to keep your staff employed.

A diminishing player credit, or disappears altogether, this season is the loose circle of family. I’ve been told that loose tickets for players’ families will be left to each team’s discretion rather than having a negotiated policy in conjunction with the stadium league that allows fans.

A source of a team hoping to have enthusiasts this season said it featured two loose tickets to the players. This is not another one of the past years, however, there will only be a “restricted” number of tickets that players will be able to purchase in addition to the two gifts. In recent years, there have been no restrictions on those additional entries.

This is a delicate factor for the players’ union and the groups. The purpose of the union is to fully help players, and players actually need as many members of the circle of family members and enjoyed members as you can imagine to watch them play in person. Groups need it too, but they can’t give away too many tickets either. There are long-term subscription holders, representing the most productive consumers of their team, who cannot stay in the cold, and profits cannot fly out the window in a year in which each and every team will revel in a monetary blow.

As mentioned above, a monetary equilibrium point for groups is probably about 20% of capacity. Local law allows some clubs to have enthusiasts in September, but they have chosen not to because low fan participation represents a low source of income that does not equate to the position of hosting the event.

I took another look at the protocols of NFL groups this week after reporting last week, and anything jumped on me.

As a component of the physical distance component of the team’s travel protocols is this nugget: “Coaches and players must have their own hotel room. Travel team members may not make separate arrangements for public or personal travel accommodation. Room only visits are allowed through members of the travel group.”

This last sentence seems to me an undeniable and sublime way to tell players to have … Friendly tours on the road.

The NBA made waves before this month when its bubble protocols required players to have “lasting relationships” with any non-family member who could be invited to the Orlando bubble. If the guest “only knows the player through social media or an intermediary”, that user would not be allowed.

It turns out that the NFL and NFLPA have completely moved away from this kind of language by banning all hotel room visits through someone unrelated to the team. If you need to have a football season without bubbles, that’s the only way.

The last time an NFL team went on sale, the Carolina Panthers let team owners down by looking for only $2.275 million. The hope was that the team would sell for more than $2.5 billion, especially with the Supreme Court paving the way for legal sports gambling. At the beginning of the pandemic, a source told me that any franchise sale would freeze for some time because there would be too much uncertainty to meet the sale price of the pre-pandemic.

Step forward until rumors continue to circulate on the Washington football team. Dan Snyder has no interest in selling, but the reports imply that his former associates seek to force him to sell. Take a damning moment Report from The Washington Post on an environment of poisonous paints that focuses more on Snyder than last month’s report and tension is rising.

I don’t think a sale is imminent and I’m not even sure it’s going to happen. But I asked a reliable source if the pandemic would have an effect on the value of the Washington football team’s sale, and the answer was surely no. The franchise is too historic, is in a prime location in the middle of the Atlantic and owns valuable genuine property. Sportico has Washington as the seventh highest-value franchise in the league with $3.58 billion. Forbes also has Washington in seventh place with $3.4 billion. Any sale deserves to start there and succeed at $4 billion or more.

NFL Communist Roger Goodell issued a vigorous condemnation of “a disturbing, abominable and indifferent habit and the environment of paintings” described in the WaPo article. The team later issued a saying that was “deeply disappointed by these horrific accusations.”

But in his own statement, Snyder adopted a decidedly different tone. While claiming full duty to his workplace, the WFT owner did not spend time apologizing to the alleged victims and instead focused his anger on the back workplace and his “successful work.”

The tone of the tells me that none of Snyder has changed. Yes, he hired other smart people for high-level jobs, but he did it before and then fired them. The difference between Snyder’s and the team at the beginning of the survey shows that 1) WFT’s resolution creators are not in unais and 2) Snyder feels the pressure.

Again, I’m still not sure we’re at the point where “you have to sell the equipment.” But if we get there, and there’s a lot of smoke right now, the value of the promotion will break records, pandemic or not.

It’s hard for me to think of anything deader and regressive than what the Packers (and others) have made the decision to make this educational camp by seriously restricting what reporters can bring back and after practice.

In Green Bay, general manager Brian Gutekunst proudly assumed a duty to restrict what the press can tweet from education in the camp. In Buffalo, the Bills suspended their own reporter for sharing the main points of the education camp, according to The Athletic. Another reporter tweeted Thursday that his call had been removed from more than two hundred articles on the Bills’ official team website.

The concept of groups is as follows: our professional explorers adhere to rhythm writers from other groups who report on task rotations and game types. In a pre-season with no displays and cassettes about opponents, we must restrict our exposure and reveal our secrets to long-term opponents.

Of course, that sounds widespread in his face. Fans of this team will settle for what the general manager says, even if that means they are less informed, which is not smart for this team, this general manager or this or any other.

But wait until next week when groups will narrow their list from 80 to 53 and reorganize their education groups. I probably wouldn’t be surprised when we see groups recruiting one or two players for their groups that had been with their Week 1 opponent education camp. It’s the smart thing to do, especially with the education groups that go up to 16 this season.

Just having this player in your construction for a day to download all the data about your opponent from Week 1 will be worth 10 times greater than all tweets from the rhythm writers’ educational camp. And your small ban on tweeting that changed internally to play the right guard during five practices in Practice No. 11 will be processed as long as your fan base remains less informed.

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