[div align=\\\"center\\\"]A look at stat priorities for Offensive Linemen
Correlating Attributes to results.
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Hello again!
Today I'm going to be presenting the data on offensive linemen.
*Disclaimer*
Again, I need to reiterate, these stat priorities might not be completely accurate or set in stone.
They are just my findings based on the first season of the NSFL. Correlation is me trying to smash random data in to a pretty line. Update your characters with this information at your own risk.
Alright so first up is the OL stats. I mainly used players that played all 14 games. I think there was 1 player that didn't, however he had played more then 7 games so I normalized his pancakes and sacks allowed to equal 14 games. Also, I used some bots because guess what, they have stats and they played games. Useful data!
Alright and player attributes
Alright, the first thing we are going to talk about is pancakes.
Stat priority:
Strength > Speed > PassBlocking > Run Blocking > Endurance > Agility
Strength being the highest stat makes perfect sense... but Speed being second? Who knows. The good news is everything here has a positive relationship and I feel like anything over .2 is significant enough.
Honestly I think that pancaking is probably a pretty complex thing that takes many of these attributes in to account and compares it to the defensive linemen. I doubt it's as simple as a strength vs strength check.
The fact of the matter is if you want to eat at IHOP, start lifting. After that, maybe hit the track.
Alright, next up is sacks. My huge speculation for this was Strength + pass blocking had an inverse relation with sacks allowed. Meaning the higher those stats are, the lower your sacks allowed would be.
For these correlations, I multiplied all of the results by negative 1, because you want no sacks allowed where as other stats like pancakes or tackles, you want as many as possible.
Anyways here is the data:
Alright, Speed again? The god stat is real.
Now again, not a ton of data so take this with a grain of salt but this seems just way too random. Pass blocking and strength don't really have a significant correlation given 25 players of 14 games with 140 sacks allowed, that seems kind of crazy to me.
So I'm thinking that this might because of the DT and DE stacking insane speed. Maybe OL only needed to stay in front of them and prevent them from running around. The problem with this is Angus Winchester doesn't have a ton of speed and allowed 0 sacks. He would generally line up against a DE being a Tackle.
Anyways, maybe this is interesting to someone because it doesn't look like very useful data.
If you have any questions about how to be a good offensive line, ask the season 1 MVP or maybe wait a few more seasons until I get more data.
Anyways, I might do one more of these articles for the WR position and maybe the RB if I'm feeling up to it, but I'm kind of discouraged because of how useless the results have been from this and a few other ones (Safeties).
I probably won't do one for TEs, they really won't have enough data, I think those players are better off looking at the OL stat priority and WR stat priority.
Cheers!
@Bzerkap
@Muford
@`BenLongshaw`
Correlating Attributes to results.
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Hello again!
Today I'm going to be presenting the data on offensive linemen.
*Disclaimer*
Again, I need to reiterate, these stat priorities might not be completely accurate or set in stone.
They are just my findings based on the first season of the NSFL. Correlation is me trying to smash random data in to a pretty line. Update your characters with this information at your own risk.
Alright so first up is the OL stats. I mainly used players that played all 14 games. I think there was 1 player that didn't, however he had played more then 7 games so I normalized his pancakes and sacks allowed to equal 14 games. Also, I used some bots because guess what, they have stats and they played games. Useful data!
Alright and player attributes
Alright, the first thing we are going to talk about is pancakes.
Stat priority:
Strength > Speed > PassBlocking > Run Blocking > Endurance > Agility
Strength being the highest stat makes perfect sense... but Speed being second? Who knows. The good news is everything here has a positive relationship and I feel like anything over .2 is significant enough.
Honestly I think that pancaking is probably a pretty complex thing that takes many of these attributes in to account and compares it to the defensive linemen. I doubt it's as simple as a strength vs strength check.
The fact of the matter is if you want to eat at IHOP, start lifting. After that, maybe hit the track.
Alright, next up is sacks. My huge speculation for this was Strength + pass blocking had an inverse relation with sacks allowed. Meaning the higher those stats are, the lower your sacks allowed would be.
For these correlations, I multiplied all of the results by negative 1, because you want no sacks allowed where as other stats like pancakes or tackles, you want as many as possible.
Anyways here is the data:
Alright, Speed again? The god stat is real.
Now again, not a ton of data so take this with a grain of salt but this seems just way too random. Pass blocking and strength don't really have a significant correlation given 25 players of 14 games with 140 sacks allowed, that seems kind of crazy to me.
So I'm thinking that this might because of the DT and DE stacking insane speed. Maybe OL only needed to stay in front of them and prevent them from running around. The problem with this is Angus Winchester doesn't have a ton of speed and allowed 0 sacks. He would generally line up against a DE being a Tackle.
Anyways, maybe this is interesting to someone because it doesn't look like very useful data.
If you have any questions about how to be a good offensive line, ask the season 1 MVP or maybe wait a few more seasons until I get more data.
Anyways, I might do one more of these articles for the WR position and maybe the RB if I'm feeling up to it, but I'm kind of discouraged because of how useless the results have been from this and a few other ones (Safeties).
I probably won't do one for TEs, they really won't have enough data, I think those players are better off looking at the OL stat priority and WR stat priority.
Cheers!
@Bzerkap
@Muford
@`BenLongshaw`