Next Gen stats 98% wrong

READER Raider D. notes that with a minute left in Detroit’s game versus Atlanta, last Sunday, Next Gen Stats calculated the Lions had “a 2 percent win probability.” Next, with no time left, “their win probability became 100 percent,” as the Lions scored a TD on the last play.

➤ Reader Henry Blaukopf on baseball’s “pure science” analytics: “They’re like a mutual funds disclaimers — ‘Past performance may not be indicative of future performance.’ ”

➤ Glad they’re keeping Washington Football Team. It’s to the point. Of course, when referencing WFT, one must be extra careful with those initials.

➤ When Rich Gannon joined CBS in 2005, he spoke plain and pleasing football English. Now, as heard throughout last Sunday’s Jets-Bills game, he tries to speak genuine, TV-certified pigskin gibberish, in quick order telling us Jets RB Frank Gore doesn’t like “to be disrespected” — who does? — “likes to run downhill” and twice that Gore tries to avoid “negative runs.”

➤ Didn’t take long for that Base-Cam gizmo to vanish, did it? Not so much a matter of who invented it, but who approved it for useless use in MLB playoff telecasts?

➤ Six-game World Series: Dodgers batted .251, Rays .216. Hits: a total of 93. Strikeouts: a total of 131. All 8:10 p.m. starts, quickest game: 3:15, longest game: 4:10. Might have something to do with rotten TV ratings?

➤ Turn down the volume, CBS has assigned “Hollerin’” Kevin Harlan to Sunday’s Jets-Chiefs.

➤ Reader Bruce Christoffersen: “Brian Cashman built a team to win the Home Run Derby, not the World Series.”