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Disruption Percentage: The Saga Continues
OR "Statistics That Will Help Bring You Down from the Post-Bowl-Game-Clinching-Win High" Premise: Boiled down to its basics, playing offense successfully in the sport of football is pretty simple: Gain 10 yards in 3 tries. Repeat until you reach the the end zone. . . . At the hypothetical...
Getting Disruptive, Part Deux
Time to revisit something KJ first investigated a couple weeks ago: the rate at which Michigan State's defense disrupts the opposing offense's rhythm. To briefly review: The goal of any football defense, then, has to be to disrupt the opposing offense's rhythm, with the goal of creating a...
Getting Disruptive
Boiled down to its basics, playing offense successfully in the sport of football is pretty simple: Gain 10 yards in 3 tries. Repeat until you reach the the end zone. (We'll skip the "does punting really make sense?" debate for now.) At the hypothetical extreme, a team that could gain exactly 3.5...
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