Last Link of Browns in Baltimore Gone as Matt Stover Loses Kicking Job
When you tune into the Cleveland Browns game against Baltimore you will see a notable absence on the Ravens roster. Matt Stover, the last holdover from the Browns on the teams roster last season, lost his job as placekicker this year for the team. The 41 year old kicked for Cleveland from 1991-1995 and continued with Baltimore from 1996-2008. Stover is the third most accurate kicker in the history of the NFL nailing 83.7% of his attempted kicks during his career that spanned nearly two decades. 24 year old Steve Hauschka is the new kicker for the Ravens and as hit 2 of his first three attempts for the team this season.
Stover not making the team will also mean that one of the most strange facts of the Browns/Ravens rivalry will no longer be in play. The Browns current kicker Phil Dawson, who proceeded Stover in Cleveland when the team reentered the league in 1999, kicked for the same high school as Stover - Lake Highlands High in Dallas. If someone can calculate that odds of that happening they would have to be far greater that a million to one.
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Now they are officially
Now they are officially Baltimores team.
odds of occurence
The odds of two kickers from the same highschool kicking for the same team as described above, based on amount of teams in the league, states in question that produce football talent, number of schools in those states, past probabilities of occurences being met, percent deviations, trim and shielded % chance yield a number far greater than the 1 million to 1 dart that was tossed out in the article.
I calculate the chance occurence to be 32.89 million to 1.
Plan B
Omitted from the story was the fact that Stover was the last surviving 'Plan B' free agent still playing for the team that signed him in the early 1990s as part of the system which preceded the current system of free agency.
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