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Math is hard and all, but the legal range has a 1 PSI difference. 12.5 to 13.5 Pats balls were found to be around 2 PSI short. Colts balls were found to all be within the legal limits (they did not announce the measured PSI of the Colts balls yet that I've seen. Only that they were legal.)
So even if the Colts filled their balls to the max limit, which we don't know of yet, and the Pats were to fill theirs to the lowest legal limit, which seems to be the indication according to Brady's clarification of his 2011 interview about him liking deflated balls (he clarified by saying he likes balls to be 12.5 PSI), where does the 1 PSI discrepancy come into play? (A note.. if they were filled higher than 12.5, then this would mean there was more than 2 PSI -lost- through this whole process, creating an even bigger discrepancy)
Colts balls would have been just as affected by the weather and being used. Yet theirs, when measured, couldn't have been less than 12.5, as they were all found to be legal. Meaning at most, they had a 1 PSI drop in pressure.
The Patriot balls on the other hand, have repeatedly been said to have been approximately 2 PSI short, indicating a much higher loss in the same conditions.
Now, consider that we don't know what the Colts balls measured at... what if they weren't even filled to the max pressure at first? What if they were in the middle, or even at the lower end of the spectrum? This would mean they lost even less air than is being assumed.
So how do they account for the discrepancy?
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