Michigan's defense leads the nation in tackles for loss (9.3 per game), ranks seventh in power success rate (54.8percentt) and third in stuff rate (27.8percentt).
Kansas City's 22percentt stuff rate, of the percentage of runs where the team tackled the opposing running back at or behind the line of scrimmage, ranks 10th in the league, which is certainly commendable.
See also Matt Levine, Money Stuff: Rates, Regulations and Casinos, BloombergView (Nov. 14, 2016) ("[t]here is no obvious explanation for why the investment banks underwriting an IPO should get 7%percentt of the proceeds"; instead, "there is a sense that only a limited number of banks can do all the stuff involved," "and those banks all just happen to charge the same fees".).
On its internal scale of 1 to 5 — 1 being the safest, 5 the riskiest — this stuff was rated 5.
Instead, it was all the stuff — coöpted rating agencies, historically unsound mathematical models, huge leveraged and uncollateralized bets — that was out there in plain sight, and that the banks simply chose to ignore.
They asked a few favours on some interest rate stuff that was kind of bending the rules.
In the aquarium tests, the corals ingested the clean stuff at a rate of up to five greater than the bio-fouled version.
"Bottom line is earlier this year we decided that we were going to focus on growing the Sports Illustrated for Kids brand," she said, adding that Inside Stuff's circulation rate base had been holding steady at 300,000.
Strip away the puppet and the astonishing production – which really is of the highest quality – and the book is decidedly second rate, stuffed full of cul-de-sacs (a small monkey puppet makes a brief appearance, a wailing Victorian figure appears to warn of trouble ahead).
