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Antonio Brown is ridiculous. You already know that by now, and what he did against Washington on Monday Night Football didnt exactly change things. Brown torched the underrated-but-overmatched Bashaud Breeland for eight catches, 126 yards and two touchdowns in Week 1, while superstar corner Josh Norman just watched on in horror. Despite the absence of Martavis Bryant and?LeVeon Bell?to draw attention from Brown,?Pittsburghs star receiver was a one-man wrecking crew.Its no accident that Brown was the consensus top pick in fantasy football drafts before the 2016 season. Hes a dominant wide receiver playing in an era where teams throw the ball and score more than ever before. Brown broke out as one of the leagues best receivers with his 110-catch, 1,499-yard receiving season in 2013, and hes upped both his receptions and receiving yards in each of the two ensuing campaigns. Its obviously too early to say if hell keep that trend up in 2016, but if he does improve on his 2015 performance, we could be looking at a campaign which threatens the receiving record books.Should the record books be scared? I was wondering the same thing and came up with the idea to build a model to test Browns chances. Brown will only have one shot to break the records, but what if we gave him 5,000 tries? Using a Monte Carlo simulator, we can estimate Browns shot at greatness and identify what might represent the upper limits of his greatness.We dont have enough data to really build a robust simulation, given that we only have three full seasons (plus one 2016 game and two postseason contests) of Brown performing at his current level, but thats going to be the basis of our piece. Brown has already bagged that Week 1 line, so hes already got the eight catches, 126 yards and two touchdowns to his name. For the other 15 games of 2016, well use a random number generator to pick one of the 47 games Brown has played with Ben Roethlisberger at quarterback since the start of the 2013 season. Hell get credit for the receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns he scored from the game in question, ranging from his 47-yard game against the Bengals last year to the 284 yards he put up against Oakland the following week.There are two other factors which enter into the simulation. One is Browns health. While he has played all 16 games in each of the last three years, Brown did miss time with injuries before that stretch, and he was out for Pittsburghs playoff loss to Denver after suffering a concussion at the hands of Vontaze Burfict in the wild-card round. We can hope Brown plays all 16 games, but we cant assume it.So, we have to estimate Browns chances of playing a given number of games by seeing what typically healthy players did. To model that, I looked at every wide receiver since 1990 who played 16 games in his age-27 season and produced eight or more points of Approximate Value, the pro-football-reference.com statistic. Of those players, 60 percent played in all 16 games the following year, 70 percent made it to 15 games, 80 percent to 14, and onward. We already know Brown will play one game, but some of the sims suggested he could play as few as two. Another random number generator used those percentages to project the number of games Brown will play in 2016. Obviously, hell need to stay as healthy as possible to have the best shot at accruing the massive totals needed to set receiving records.We also must account for the likelihood of Brown getting to play with Roethlisberger for 16 games. We have a larger sample to work with for Roethlisbergers health. While he has missed plenty of games during his lengthy career, his absences include several games where he was rested during a meaningless Week 17 and the four-game suspension he incurred in 2010. Take those unlikely-to-recur events out and Roethlisberger has played in 94.5 percent of the games we would expect since taking over the starting job during the first month of his rookie campaign.Brown only played four games without Roethlisberger since the beginning of that 2013 season, all of which came last year, with his numbers suffering dramatically. Browns averaged 8.1 catches, 109.7 yards, and 0.7 touchdowns in those 47 games with Roethlisberger. Without him, Brown averaged 4.3 catches, 58.8 yards, and didnt score a receiving touchdown. Thats a drop-off of 47.7 percent in receptions and 46.5 percent in yards. For each game Brown plays in our simulation, well also check for the 5.5 percent chance that Roethlisberger might be injured. If he is, well still pick one of those 47 Roethlisberger games, but well cut Browns receiving totals from that game by the percentages I just mentioned. (Since its unrealistic to say Brown will never catch a touchdown without Roethlisberger, I decided to cut his touchdowns in those games by 47.1 percent to stay in line with the other two figures.)Of course, there are a few holes in this simulation. Roethlisbergers injuries are likely to be highly correlated as an all-or-nothing sort of thing, so its more plausible that he misses a bunch of games or has a 16-game season than our simulation, where hes more likely to just miss a random game. Brown may be capable of performances which are better or worse than his previously established level of expectation. Theres also a possibility of Brown surpassing the records while somebody else like?Odell Beckham Jr.?produces even greater statistics. By any stretch of the imagination,?this is not a perfect examination. As a reasonable estimate, though, it will do just fine.So, with those caveats, I ran Browns 2016 season through the wringer 5,000 times. Lets see what came out.To start, I can tell you that Brown has basically no chance of hitting Randy Moss record of 23 receiving touchdowns in one season given his past level of production, even after picking up two in the opener. It happened just twice across the 5,000 seasons, which leaves two other titles for the taking:Receptions, Current Record: Marvin Harrison (143 receptions, 2002)This model actually projects Browns receptions total to drop based on the gaudy expectations of the last few years, if only because he misses at least one game about 40 percent of the time. The average receptions total for Brown across the 5,000 simulations is 116 catches, with the median figure at 121 receptions. If we were to solely look at the seasons where he plays all 16 games, Browns average campaign produces just under 128 catches, which is right in line with the 129 receptions he pulled in 2014.In terms of getting to the mark Marvin Harrison hit with the Colts in 2002, Browns chances arent great, but theyre better than they would be for just about any other player in the first month of a typical season. The simulation found that Brown finished with 144 catches or more 4.7 percent of the time, or just over one in every 21 tries. It doesnt help that hes already behind the pace on receptions; after accruing eight in the opener, Brown would need to average better than nine per game over the next 15 weeks to make it to 144.We might be underestimating Browns chances there, though, if only because the likelihood that hell fall just short is slim. We know from Browns five-catch, 50-yard streak that Mike Tomlin and the Steelers are sensitive to records; in 2014, they forced a late throw to Brown to extend the streak. If Brown gets close to the record, its fair to expect the Steelers to force him the ball and break it.If you assume that Brown is going to surpass the record if he even gets close, his chances rise. For example, Brown finished with 140 catches in our simulation 8.9 percent of the time. He topped 135 catches in 16.6 percent of the seasons. Im not sure which number you should use, but I suspect the true likelihood of Brown setting the record is probably closer to the 8.9 percent mark than it is to the 4.7 percent figure.The best-case scenario, the one where Brown blows away the record books? That came in season 3,840, which picked Browns 17-catch game against the Raiders from last year three times. Brown had just two games all season with fewer than eight catches and set the record in Week 15 before putting some distance underneath his totals. He finished the year with 174 catches.The most impressive year, though, might have been season 1,211. Brown missed two games with an injury, leaving him with a mere 14 games to set the record. He also was without Roethlisbergers services for one of those games. (The simulator chose the Raiders game, which meant that Brown still finished his start with nine catches.) Brown still managed to pull off his miraculous feat, though, by averaging better than 10 catches per game and finishing the year with 145 receptions to set the new receptions record.Receiving Yards, Current Record: Calvin Johnson (1,964 yards, 2012)Brown has a better shot at the receiving yardage record, given that he manages to combine his obscene receiving volume with incredible work after the catch and a fair number of big plays downfield. When Harrison had his 143-catch season in 2002, he averaged 12 yards per catch. Since 2013, Browns averaged 13.5 yards per reception. When were talking about hundreds of catches, that difference adds up.Again, because of the likelihood of injury, the average Brown season fails to live up to what he did in 2015, when he accrued 1,834 receiving yards. Our simulations average Brown season had him pick up 1,583 receiving yards, with the median at 1,641 yards. The average total in 16-game seasons was 1,745 receiving yards, which would be better than his 2014 total (1,698 yards).Brown did top Megatron, though, by gaining 1,965 receiving yards or more in 7.9 percent of the simulated seasons. You would figure that Brown would try and make a run for 2,000 yards, but he only made it that far in 5.8 percent of the campaigns. In reality, I would again expect that Brown would be less likely to settle in the range between those two figures than our simulation realizes, even if Johnson ended up 35 yards short. And if you believe that Tomlin would push Brown over the top if he was even close to Johnsons figures, you might want to know that Brown hit 1,900 yards in our simulations 12.4 percent of the time.I was hoping Brown would have one 2,500-yard season to totally blow the league away, but he came up narrowly short. In season 4,773, Brown caught 171 passes (with Roethlisberger missing one game!) and turned them into 2,490 receiving yards. In this universe, Brown hit 2,000 yards in Week 13, which is downright nuts. He actually slowed down over the final month, given that he started the year with 10 100-yard games in 11 weeks before finishing with just two in his final five contests.In these 5,000 universes [universii?], Brown also produced two 2,000-yard seasons during 14-game campaigns, which is another level of insanity. The most fascinating season might actually be his 16-game floor, which was season 367. Roethlisberger missed three games due to injury and Brown produced just two more 100-yard games after the opener, and it just didnt matter. He still finished the year with 1,246 receiving yards, which would have been good for ninth in the league last season. When your worst-case scenario as a healthy player is basically halfway between A.J. Green and Larry Fitzgerald, youre really good.If these expectations seem low, remember that just about everything needs to go right for a player to break a single-season record. 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On Saturday, it was fitting that Manchester Uniteds most recent dagger into the chest was delivered by Frenchman Yohan Cabaye, a wonderfully gifted central midfielder who put on an outstanding effort for Newcastle at Old Trafford.For years, Perry Dozier Sr. fibbed. OK, maybe downright lied is more accurate.Hed sign his son, PJ Dozier, up for rec leagues and area tournaments and fudge his sons age.But Perry wasnt trying to turn his son into a basketball Danny Almonte, hoping to buck the system so his son stood out among the competition. No, Perry would tell people PJ was two years older than he was, purposefully putting him at a disadvantage.The way Perry figured it, PJ not only would be challenged by the older, bigger boys, but also would avoid being pigeonholed and stuffed in the post from the first day he touched a ball because he was so much taller than kids his own age.The experiment worked -- well, except for the time PJ dribbled upcourt with tears streaming down his face because he was being pushed around too much by the older kids -- until father and son embarked on a little tour. They hit up all the big youth summer tournaments, and Perry finally had to come clean about PJs age.That summer, PJ finally played with kids his own age.He came home ranked the best fifth-grader in the nation by one recruiting service.It was exciting, but I was 10, PJ said. It didnt really mean anything. I knew I just had to stay the course.He did, following a pretty straight path from elementary school honors to top-20 prospect to McDonalds All American and now, especially since teammate Sindarius Thornwell is suspended, the most important piece of a South Carolina team that is off to an unexpected 8-1 start and No. 16 ranking.How did PJ avoid the child prodigy to child nobody detour? Easily. He might have been the best fifth-grader in the nation, but he wasnt even the best baller in his own family.The Twin Towers -- thats what they were called. Perry Dozier Sr. checked in at 6-foot-10, his twin brother Terry at 6-9. Together they led Baltimores Dunbar High School to a national championship and then both enrolled at South Carolina. Terry would go on to score 1,445 collegiate points and play briefly in the NBA, while Perrys career was cut short by a knee injury. But the Dozier name took hold in the state, associated with basketball excellence.Terry trained PJ for a time, and Perry coached his son for nearly the entirety of his career. They demanded a lot -- Terry maybe even a little more. Wary of keeping a separation between coach and father, Perry made sure he and his son had interests outside of basketball, taking PJ to the golf course or bowling alley regularly where the lone rule was that no one talked hoops.But neither father nor uncle worked PJ the hardest. No, the real taskmaster was his big sister, Asia. A four-star prospect, shed drag her kid brother onto the driveway of the familys home in Columbia, South Carolina, for relentless games of one-on-one, the end coming only when their mother, Theresa, had enough of the squabbling and forced a truce.She actually restricted us from playing one another for a while, Asia said. The games would almost always end in tears, usually PJs. Hes accustomed to winning and hes always had that failure isnt an option attitude, so I didnt have to say much. The end result would be enough for the tears.The two grew up in basketball together, Asia winning two state titles at South Carolinas Spring Valley High School and climbing her way up the recruiting rankings, PJs career drawing so many eyeballs that a website, pjdozier.net, chronicled his progress. PJ doesnt know who started the site and hasnt visited it in years, but its like walking into the pages of a scrapbook. Scroll to the bottom and youll find articles from as far back as that groundbreaking fifth-grade year and piictures of a scrawny kid with a big smile kissing trophies bigger than he is.dddddddddddd.As the scrawny kid gave way to a more seasoned player, things started to change -- most notably, on the driveway. Asia remembers her baby brother coming home after a month of summer hoops looking a whole lot less babyish.Where did all of those inches come from? she remembered saying to her mother.With PJs preteen growth spurt officially kicking in, she wisely opted out of one-on-one dogfights, choosing instead more winnable games of H-O-R-S-E.Those early sibling battles, though, paid their dividends for brother and sister. Asia earned her states Gatorade Player of the Year and Miss Basketball honors before becoming the latest Dozier to earn a scholarship to South Carolina. Four years later, she would graduate as a two-time captain, a three-year starter, a Final Four participant and part of the winningest class in Gamecocks history.Hot on her tail, along came PJ, bringing home more state Player of the Year honors for the familys trophy case, and attracting equally premiere programs: Louisville, Michigan and North Carolina all made the short list and, of course, South Carolina.Continuing the Dozier family legacy seemed the obvious choice.I was truly concerned, Perry said. I wanted what was going to be best for him and I thought the pressure of staying home might be too much.But Perry also recalled his own recruitment, when his mother mindfully toed the line between offering guidance without swaying her boys. Choosing a college, she told them, was both a deeply personal decision and their first adult decision and therefore not up to her to make. Perry took his moms advice to heart and backed off, letting PJ find his own way.He did his homework, carefully considering each of his choices, picking his sisters brain for the benefits and pratfalls of staying at home. Ultimately he opted for South Carolina, taking a flier on coach Frank Martin, who was still trying to resurrect the Gamecocks program, and taking on the extra pressure by staying home.To me, that showed a lot about his character, Martin said. It was us and the blue bloods, and he not only could have gone to one of the blue bloods, he could have gotten away from the extra scrutiny. For him to say no to that, that told me who PJ really was.Who he is, his father and sister both say, is a kid who is naturally gifted. Sports come easily to him -- those golf and bowling outings turned PJ into a terrific golfer and an even better bowler -- but he does not choose the easy road.There is, after all, only one place to go from being the nations best fifth-grader.Bust, PJ said. I never wanted that to come into play.So instead of showing off his ranking, he tucked it away. Even as a 10-year-old, he recognized that elementary school success doesnt equate to a guaranteed future. He worked with his uncle, listened to his father and tried to be better than his sister. When he walked into a gym, instead of trying to reward people who came to see him score some eye-popping number of points, he played his game.Consequently, the top fifth-grader not only became a top prospect who became a McDonalds All American who became a star on a top-25 team, but he also flip-flopped the Dozier family pecking order.We were the Dozier boys, Perry said of himself and his brother Terry, and now all of a sudden life has changed. Now Im PJs dad, and you know what? Its an awesome feeling. I like that title much more than the Dozier twins. ' ' '