pretty amazing SU won 4 games considering their YPG on both sides

[Millhouse]

Yards per play is a good way to measure offense or defense in isolation because more plays can make you look better on defense, vice versa

but yards per game works fine when combining the two.

Fresno (3 wins), hawaii (3 wins), Oregon St (2), North Texas (1), UCF (0) and Kansas (0) are the only teams worse. 122 out of 128.

Our per play combined rank is 123.

 

[orangeinjersey]

i'm still amazed about the 97 combined passing yards. That is crazy.

 

[SmilinBob]

If you could somehow add turnover margin, Penalties (along with impact penalties such as taking away a td or long play), injuries and SOS to correctly evaluate the HC, I'd like to see those numbers.

 

[Millhouse]

If you could somehow add turnover margin, Penalties (along with impact penalties such as taking away a td or long play), injuries and SOS to correctly evaluate the HC, I'd like to see those numbers.

I did that a couple weeks ago, i'll get to it again eventually

http://syracusefan.com/threads/simp...d-to-margin-and-sos-ranks.96664/#post-1561068

 

[SmilinBob]

Interesting.....the criteria is always the kicker when it comes to this type of thing. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Millhouse]

Interesting...the criteria is always the kicker when it comes to this type of thing. Thanks for sharing.

ok you got me curious so i did it quick - hopefully not too quick to have errors

combining ypp offense rank, ypp defense rank, 0.5* turnover margin rank, and strength of schedule rank and dividing by 3.5

we come out at 81st. the fancy connelly system has us at 76th. pretty close. http://www.footballstudyhall.com/pages/2015-syracuse-advanced-statistical-profile

Washington jumps out as very weird. Explains why they were favored before killing WSU though.

School Rank
Oklahoma 1
LSU 2
Alabama 3
Ohio State 4
Florida State 5
Mississippi 6
USC 7
Washington 8
Baylor 9
UCLA 9
Clemson 11
Notre Dame 12
North Carolina 13
Penn State 14
TCU 15
Michigan State 16
Georgia 17
Oklahoma State 18
Iowa 18
Bowling Green 20
South Florida 20
Arkansas 22
Michigan 23
Louisville 24
BYU 25
West Virginia 26
Oregon 27
California 28
Texas 29
Navy 30
Mississippi State 31
Florida 32
Stanford 32
Memphis 34
Toledo 35
Miami (Florida) 35
Minnesota 37
Western Kentucky 38
Appalachian State 39
Utah 40
North Carolina State 41
Northwestern 42
Houston 43
Wisconsin 44
Illinois 45
Pittsburgh 45
Boise State 47
Northern Illinois 47
Tennessee 47
Indiana 47
Central Michigan 51
Boston College 52
Georgia Southern 53
Southern Mississippi 54
Texas Tech 55
Texas A&M 56
Georgia Tech 57
Auburn 58
Temple 59
San Diego State 60
Nebraska 61
Missouri 62
Virginia Tech 63
Louisiana Tech 64
Arizona State 64
Western Michigan 66
Maryland 67
Akron 68
East Carolina 69
South Carolina 70
Duke 71
Air Force 72
Utah State 73
Washington State 74
Arizona 75
Middle Tennessee 76
Cincinnati 77
Arkansas State 78
Connecticut 79
Vanderbilt 80
Syracuse 81
Marshall 82
Ohio 83
Kentucky 84
Iowa State 85
Virginia 86
Tulsa 87
Wake Forest 88
Rutgers 89
Georgia State 90
Kent State 91
Colorado 92
San Jose State 93
Oregon State 94
Purdue 95
Massachusetts 96
New Mexico 97
Nevada 98
UNLV 99
Troy 100
New Mexico State 101
Colorado State 102
Buffalo 103
Kansas 104
Florida Atlantic 105
Kansas State 106
Tulane 107
Old Dominion 108
Miami (Ohio) 109
SMU 110
Louisiana-Lafayette 111
Hawai'i 112
Ball State 112
Florida International 114
Fresno State 115
Wyoming 116
South Alabama 117
Army 117
UTSA 119
Eastern Michigan 120
Idaho 121
Texas State 122
Louisiana-Monroe 123
Charlotte 124
UCF 125
North Texas 126
Rice 127
UTEP 128

 

[SmilinBob]

Very very interesting. The weighting of the info/criteria moved around or shifted could make for some very good info. Thanks, pretty cool stuff. Bowling Green did pretty well.

 

[Millhouse]

Very very interesting. The weighting of the info/criteria moved around or shifted could make for some very good info. Thanks, pretty cool stuff. Bowling Green did pretty well.

yeah, i pulled the turnover margin weight out of you know where. who knows what the weight should be on that or strength of schedule