Yeah saw a lot of complaints on twitter about that safety costing people a lot of money. It did cause the Ravens to beat the spread.
Mark Christiansen
2021-01-03 18:35:42 +0000 UTC
In simplest terms the reason you go for 2 is to get two 2 point attempts and cleavland doesn’t wanna go to overtime with the ravens even if they didn’t get it they could go for two
James brady
2020-12-24 18:08:43 +0000 UTC
“If you’re down 8 points after scoring a touchdown (with 10 minutes left), you should go for 2, because the difference [in win probability] between being down 7 points (if you make the extra point) and being down 6 points (if you convert the 2) is greater than the difference between being down 7 points and being down 8 points (if you miss the 2-point conversion).”
From what I’ve seen from other people, the two point conversion while down 8 was just purely an analytical decision