(03-17-2020, 10:05 PM)iStegosauruz Wrote:This season breaks the trend but what it highlighted for me after the two previous seasons was that defense and containing the quarterback were never going to be the only thing that factored into team success. For teams like the Liberty in Season 18 who had a negative GAV Diff. and did a good job in containing opposing quarterbacks it must’ve been their offense who let them down.
The natural other suggestion (to me at least) is that the teams could have had a poor run defense - containing the QB doesn't help as much if you're giving up 200 rushing yards/game. Certainly possible it's more on the offense, but...
(I'm assuming the rushing attempts/yards/TDs in the formula are by the QB only)
And actually, looking at Liberty in S18, they were 7th overall in points scored/game, 4th overall in points allowed/game, 7th overall in rushing yards allowed/game, and (for completeness) 6th overall in passing yards allowed/game. They also had 4 1-score losses and finished 5th with 2 fewer wins than the 2nd place team in the conference, which is interesting.
(Edit: So I'd say the numbers don't really support my hypothetical, shrug)
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