2 point conversion question:

[SouthFarmchicken]

With roughly 3 minutes lefts, we score a TD...and are down 16. Instead of kicking the extra point to cut it to 15, we go for 2 and fail. Why?

I know we did three million things wrong as a staff last night but I thought this was way up there.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

You're going to have to go for two at some point and he obviously felt like that was it. What's hard to understand?

 

[patdog]

Because math. Odds of making a conversion are very close to 50-50. If you wait, you'll have a 50% chance to make 1 conversion. If you go for it now, you still give yourself a 25% chance to make two conversions later if you fail.

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[kired]

Have you seen our kicker?

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Facts don't mesh with emotion. Better waiting until about Wednesday to post realistic stuff, with this crowd.