Comments on: Breaking Down the Offense – ND v Bevo

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:07:00 +0000

I only wish I could do the sports math like you do, Moons! 🙂 Great job!

By: LaughingTulkas

LaughingTulkas — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:49:00 +0000

In reply to Moons. 33% makes sense based on what I saw, would love to see this kept track of for different opponents!

By: MattyVGoND

MattyVGoND — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 05:55:00 +0000

In reply to Moons. The Luatua pass was a miss by Zaire as well. Zaire stepped up in the pocket and threw to the Right near the sideline. He led Luatua too much. The play was during last touchdown drive. Play #3, right after the fumble by Prosise when he mishandled the handoff.

By: Moons

Moons — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:49:00 +0000

In reply to DenverIrish. Yup. The only pass I'd attribute as a Zaire "miss" was the Smythe throw, and that one was barely a miss. Nothing that can't be corrected quickly.

By: DenverIrish

DenverIrish — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:06:00 +0000

Great stuff! I didn’t realize Corey Robinson was on the field that much. Two of the tight end drops were spot throws – I don’t recall the Luatua miss. One was in Jones’ chest and the other was thrown behind Smythe; It looked like he was expecting Smythe to just pivot, not break the route to the left so much. Those would certainly seem like easier passes to connect on than the some of the great WR passes where he hit the WR in stride, but they may require more touch – maybe the pass to Jones was a bullet. In any event, those certainly seem like easier things to fix than any timing issues with WRs that thankfully were not present in the first game.

By: Moons

Moons — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:37:00 +0000

In reply to LaughingTulkas. Thanks for reading! And yes, I can absolutely give you each personnel grouping (as a matter of fact, it's one of the things I want to provide but ran out of time this week). Quickly, I can tell you ND was in 12 for 18 non-garbage time plays (add in I believe 12 more if you include the Kizer snaps). So, it ended up that they were in 12 roughly 33% of the time this week. I'll get the firm numbers for you tonight.

By: LaughingTulkas

LaughingTulkas — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:21:00 +0000

First of all, I LOVE this. A great way to look at the data and lots of ways to look at it. This will only gett cooler as the season goes on and we have more data. One request: since you already have the player participation data, do you think you could add a chart about personnel groupings? I’d love to be able to see how much we were in 3 wides (11 personnel) or double tight (12 personnel) etc.

Thanks for all your work on this!