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Beyond the Box Score: SEC Edition (Part Two)
We pick up today where Part One left off: with the West Division. West Division LSU (6-2) Game-Changing Stats Pass Defense. Total Defense, Passing Downs. Total Defense, close games. Total O...
Beyond the Box Score: SEC edition (Part One)
So at my current rate over at Rock M Nation, I'll be sick of writing about the Big 12 by about Week Three of the season. I mean...how many words have I written about the Ne-----a defense at this...
Beyond the Box Score: Win Correlations (Part Two)
So in yesterday's WinCorr conversation, I mentioned that while WinCorr could be (and was) used to look at the overall stats that are most directly connected to success on the field. I also menti...
Beyond the Box Score: Win Correlations (Part One)
Gary Pinkel has always mentions that playing defense is all about leverage. If two guys are pursuing a runner who is running toward the sideline, the job of the first guy isn't necessarily to ta...
Beyond the Box Score: Special Teams
So after yesterday's look at Turnovers, it's now time to establish point values for special teams. Leaving PATs out of it for now (it will obviously be easy to add them later), there are three m...
Beyond the Box Score: Turnovers
In most of my previous BTBS posts, I've acknowledged that the whole thought behind my EqPts measure (and therefore the PPP and S&P measures as well) is only one part of scoring points. It's ...
Beyond the Box Score: The '+' Concept
When I started entering all this play-by-play data, one of my main goals was simply to apply some of the basic sabermetric ideas to football. I mean, if they make sense in one sport, they should...
Beyond the Box Score: A National Look
A few months ago, I wrote a few posts here discussing what I hope to be a new level of football statistics... Part One (EqPts)Part Two (Success Rates)Part Three (Defensive Evaluation...not my best po...
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