Semi- In Depth Statistical Analysis Of Rm Defense

Green Nightmare · December 19, 2007

Really trying to wrap my head around this team, this season and especially our defense.

Not sure if any of you are stat heads, if you are and don't frequent this site you need to Cold Hard Football

Basically they really get into what makes winning NFL teams successful. Rather than looking at fluff stats like Passing yards given up to determine a great pass defense, they use Defensive Passer Rating.

They have a list of quality stats that you can browse and lo and be hold the top teams in the league are tops in those categories.

That being said I have neither the time nor desire to rank all 117 teams and determine where the D fits. I'll give you a snap shot of it and a point of reference.

Don't worry I reached the same conclusion I had going in. Our defense s#cks!

Bendability

IT is not a measure purely of defensive efficiency. Instead, with a very simple figure, it takes into consideration many, many team-wide factors, including special teams proficiency, turnover differential, red zone defense and a variety of other factors, and tells you which teams force opponents to work the hardest to score points. This accounts for bad offense series and Romans less the steller returns etc

This to me was how I viewed the Deloach/DD era. They might bend but never break.

Now not so much

Yards Points YPPA

6124 541 11.32

Scoreability

Same applies as above. Measure of how hard we have to work to score. We have to generate 16 yards of offense for every point. Our opponents in the above only need to generate 11

Yards Points YPPS

4901 298 16.45

Defensive Passer Rating

Basically like QB rating but for the defense

Att. Comp. Pct YPA TD INT RATING

388 228 58.7 7.94 36 11 103

SMU rating was 82 and we know how bad they are.

I want to delve more into this and look at the SBelt, CUSA and our opponents.

Also later on I want to look at the 05 and 06 NT units. However my employer last I checked does not pay me for Stats analysis of NT Football

Memo from the obvious dept

Defense is bad very bad.