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Message: [QUOTE="Louie and Bouie, post: 1900751, member: 793"] Below is the adjusted yards per play (offense and defense) taking into account SOS to date and ranking out of FBS teams. Further, this statistic takes into account pace of play and all the additional snaps/plays that tempo teams create, offensively and defensively, during a game. All stats use data versus FBS competition only. 128 teams are ranked in FBS. The stats are retrieved from cfbanalytics.com which is a great advanced statistical website. It also has common statistical categories like Total Offense and Total Defense statistics for all you meatheads (tongue firmly in cheek). [U][B]Offense[/B][/U] - Adj. yards per run - 3.44 (#111) Adj yards per pass - 7.64 (#66) Adj. yards per play - 5.97 (#69) [B][U]Defense[/U][/B] - Adj. yards per run - 5.97 (#126) Adj. yards per pass - 8.77 (#108) Adj. yards per play - 7.36 (#126) Attempting to correlate current statistical performance of Syracuse to the current Top 25 teams showed me a few things that were interesting to me: 1. Obviously, the defense is just plain bad (trying to be nice with my description). The ongoing debate regarding the blame for this on the coaches, talent, scheme seems somewhat fruitless as there is more than enough to go around for anyone involved with the defense at this point. Plain and simple, the defense needs to get significantly better statistically or nothing the offense does will make enough of a difference to get to our ultimate goal of being nationally relevant. 2. The offense needs to get much more efficient also. The increased pace and number of plays has certainly provided more excitement for the viewer/fan and has led to great individual stat lines for media sites, announcers and fans touting the new high powered offense and all of that is good. I have described it to my friends who have tuned out Syracuse football as a new and exciting way to lose. Seriously, I'm on board with the additional publicity of having all of these yards gained thrown around in a positive fashion for the program. I hope it all helps with bringing fans back to the Dome, improving recruiting and ultimately wins. However, outside of the headlines and records, the reality is that this is currently a very inefficient offensive product and needs to do much better as a unit moving forward. Currently, there are only 4 teams in the Top 25 that have worse adj. yards per play on offense than Syracuse (Arkansas, Florida, Utah and Wisconsin) and their defenses are all rated much better than ours currently. 3. Statistically speaking, the formula for success for SU under Babers that can work is a Top 25 offense and a Top 50-75 defense based upon adj. yards per play if we truly want to get into a conversation about sniffing the national Top 25 or 30. There is no way that this is happening this year or probably next but is a good measurement of where we want to be moving into the future. Anywho, just wanted to share some of my newest statistical findings which interested me. I offer no current solutions as that is not the purpose of the post. [/QUOTE]

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