[Bjorn]

Personally I'd much rather see an argument and a campaign for correct 4th down strategy. The situation mentioned here simply doesn't come up often enough to be of much use and even when it does it's not that huge a difference maker.

Seen over a season routinly punting on 4th and one probably is about a hundred times worse an error.

In both cases current coaching "wisdom" is mathematically wrong but only one (the 4th down thing) i a big leak, simply because of the difference in frequency.

I also think the 4th down thing is a much easier "sell", many football fans (even of the non-math variety) allready want their teams to go for it more on 4th down and even even more hope that their opponents won't go for it on 4th and short.

/Bjorn