Game metrics –
Someone about a month ago asked if I could post some of the metrics during the season this year that I’ve been posting in the offseason. This is what I’ve come up with.
Obviously what is offense for one team is defense for the other.
1D+TD as a percentage of total offensive plays to show how efficient an offense is.
X-run % - to show what percentage of run plays were explosive (10+ yards).
X-pass % - to show what percentage of pass plays were explosive (20+ yards).
X-total % - percentage of total plays that were explosive.
Havoc % - percentage of defensive plays that were either TFLs, PBU, Ints, or Forced Fumbles.
Pass Rush % - percentage of pass plays that were either sacks or QB hurries.
I’ve used the Vandy/Hawaii and Northwestern/Nebraska games as examples. I figured it might be of interest to post the information for some of the matchups of our future opponents as well as for our own games, for example, Pitt/WVU, UF/Utah, FSU/LSU, and UF/UK, etc.
I didn't include returning production because as you can imagine the value of that tends to wane as you get farther into the season. It can however be of significant importance starting out the season, for example, Vandy was ranked #45 for returning production and Hawaii was ranked #131. Northwestern was at #58 and Nebraska was at #100.
I also didn't include 3rd down information because that information is published everywhere and can sometimes not tell a lot about the efficiency of the offense, for example, last year against Georgia we converted 45% of our 3rd downs and 48% of our 3D+4D; Georgia only converted 33.3% of their 3Ds and never went for it on 4D. So we did pretty good. On 1D+TD Georgia's offensive efficiency was 44.3% and ours was 28.6%, which, everything else being equal, might be a better representation of how our offenses fared against each other that game. jmo.
Let me know if you have any feedback. Thanks.
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