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DYoungJelly · 12-14-2019, 04:20 PM

I'm a huge fan of the metrics at FootballOutsiders but they have flaws also.

I emailed them either last season or the season before asking for more details on what is and isn't measured in their Oline adjusted line yards metric.

The purpose of the email was to see if all the blown blocks by our TE unit was attributed to the terrible ranking of the Oline in the run game.

They emailed back and said it's all numbers, no subjectivity and that the units weren't distinguished.

So, in theory we may have had a much better Oline in the running game than that metric indicated. We might have been brought down by the TE group and Fat Rob hitting the wrong hole, but every other team was measured the exact same way.

12-14-2019, 04:20 PM	#557
DYoungJelly The Starter Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Virginia Posts: 2,300	Re: The Haskins Threat I'm a huge fan of the metrics at FootballOutsiders but they have flaws also. I emailed them either last season or the season before asking for more details on what is and isn't measured in their Oline adjusted line yards metric. The purpose of the email was to see if all the blown blocks by our TE unit was attributed to the terrible ranking of the Oline in the run game. They emailed back and said it's all numbers, no subjectivity and that the units weren't distinguished. So, in theory we may have had a much better Oline in the running game than that metric indicated. We might have been brought down by the TE group and Fat Rob hitting the wrong hole, but every other team was measured the exact same way. __________________ I'm tired of these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!