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Have y'all heard about S&P+ rankings?

Posted on 12/12/16 at 10:22 pm
Posted by whodidthat
Member since Aug 2011
5896 posts
Posted on 12/12/16 at 10:22 pm
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The S&P+ Ratings are a college football ratings system derived from the play-by-play and drive data of all 800+ of a season's FBS college football games (and 140,000+ plays). The components for S&P+ reflect opponent-adjusted components of four of what Bill Connelly has deemed the Five Factors of college football: efficiency, explosiveness, field position, and finishing drives. (A fifth factor, turnovers, is informed marginally by sack rates, the only quality-based statistic that has a consistent relationship with turnover margins.)


I was thinking they would be a good objective way to compare the offenses of the offensive coordinators we're looking at and compare to other coaches.

Here are the offensive rankings.
quote:

Off. S&P+ rating: A team's offense-specific S&P+ rating, presented in the form of an adjusted scoring average.


Oklahoma (1st)
Pitt (4th)
Alabama (16th)
Oregon (21st)

LINK

Of course I don't think these rankings are absolute, but still interesting and worth considering since the eye test is usually wrong and looking at some stats doesn't always tell the whole story



Posted by MastrShake
SoCal
Member since Nov 2008
7281 posts
Posted on 12/12/16 at 10:26 pm to
if you had to choose 1 stat to rank an offense or defense, S&P+ is the best and its not even close imo.
This post was edited on 12/12/16 at 10:31 pm
Posted by MastrShake
SoCal
Member since Nov 2008
7281 posts
Posted on 12/12/16 at 10:40 pm to
another note here is that Pitt had the number 4 ranked offense despite playing 4 teams inside the S&P+ top 20 on defense

#6 Clemson - 43 points
#14 Miami - 28 points
#16 Penn State - 42 points
#20 VTech - 36 points

thats an average of 37 ppg

LSU averaged 28 ppg this year
This post was edited on 12/12/16 at 10:42 pm
Posted by CBP3110
Member since Aug 2012
6599 posts
Posted on 12/12/16 at 11:01 pm to
I laugh at nobody is commenting on this thread because it's dead on. Great post. Great positive post. Way to bring something legit instead of talking out of your arse and bitching about some binder.
Posted by I-H8-BAMA
Benton, Louisiana
Member since Jan 2013
10427 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 12:30 am to
Interesting. Personally, I'm excited about Canada if we can reel him in. He seems to adapt to his players strengths very well. It's gonna be so goddamn refreshing seeing a new offense. I know in a lot of cases it will look pro style but just seeing new plays will give me a chub.
Posted by TigerNE
Everett, MA
Member since Jul 2013
1096 posts
Posted on 12/13/16 at 1:46 pm to
Great post. Something tangible for those of us who don't know much about these OC's in general and Canada in particular.
Posted by IAmTheTator
Frisco, TX
Member since Sep 2015
58 posts
Posted on 12/14/16 at 2:19 pm to



FEI is a good one also.
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