NFL 2008 Referee Statistics through Week 3 (9/22/2008)

Let's kick off our 2008 NFL referee statistics with analysis through week 3 (through September 22, 2008)! Send your questions, ideas, suggestions in comments to this posting.

Of several potential areas to track, let's start off with the total number of accepted penalties per game and the total number of accepted penalty yards per game. We can also look at the average penalty yards per accepted penalty (which referees have large-yardage penalties?)

Total accepted penalties
Jeff Triplette is obliterating the competition through the first three weeks of the season, averaging 18 penalties per game! Next four are Jerome Boger (14.5), Ed Hochuli (14.3), and Tony Corrente and John Parry (tied with 14.0).
At the bottom, Carl Cheffers and Gene Steratore are tied with 8.7 per game.

Total penalty yards
Not a surprise that Jeff Triplette is also burning up the scoreboard on total penalty yards (137 per game). Terry McAulay follows at 118 per game then a clustering of six referees at 107-112 per game.
At the bottom, Carl Cheffers is low-man with 61 per game followed by Scott Green (70) and Gene Steratore (72).

Yards per penalty
Who has the largest yards per penalty? Terry McAulay is far in the lead (9.8 per penalty) followed by Mike Carey (8.5) and Gene Steratore (8.3).
At the bottom are Walt Anderson (6.5) and Bill Leavy (6.9).

Points per game
We have not done adjustments for the teams in each game (it's a bit early in the season to do team adjustments), so here are some raw numbers, no doubt affected by the teams assigned to the referees:
Highest points per game is Terry McAulay (66.5) and Peter Morelli (59). At the bottom are Tony Corrente (31.3), John Parry (33.7), and Walt Anderson (34).

Week 3 Cheat Sheet
For this week's cheat sheet, we list the referee followed by: rank in total accepted penalties (1st is largest), rank in total penalty yards (1st is largest), rank in points per penalty (1st is largest), and total points per game. Doubt you'll see these posted on your television during the game, although I think they should be!

Walt Anderson (10, 12, 17, 34.0)
Jerome Boger (2, 7, 10, 53.0)
Mike Carey (7, 6, 2, 38.5)
William Carollo (11, 10, 12, 47.3)
Carl Cheffers (16, 17, 14, 38.3)
Walt Coleman (14, 13, 11, 53.7)
Tony Corrente (4, 5, 5, 31.3)
Scott Green (15, 16, 15, 38.3)
Ed Hochuli (3, 3, 6, 46.0)
Bill Leavy (8, 11, 16, 51.0)
Terry McAulay (12, 2, 1, 66.5)
Peter Morelli (13, 14, 13, 59.0)
John Parry (5, 4, 4, 33.7)
Alberto Riveron (9, 9, 8, 38.7)
Gene Steratore (17, 15, 3, 39.7)
Jeff Triplette (1, 1, 9, 41.7)
Ron Winter (6, 8, 7, 52.7)