Monthly Archives: November 2011

November 14, 2011 · 11:39 am

Week 10 stat list update

Riley Nelson‘s 56 passing yards vs. Idaho were enough to pass up Eldon ‘The Phantom’ Fortie for 27th in career passing at BYU.

SEASON PASSING YARDS

Last week Nelson passed up Jake Heaps in passing for the season. This week, Heaps passed up Nelson.

CAREER RUSHING

It was a bad week for the Phantom. JJ DiLuigi passed him to move into 11th in career rushing yards.

CAREER RECEIVING

One catch was enough to move McKay Jacobson into a tie with Jay Miller for 25th.

JJ DiLuigi has the same number of receptions in his career (86) as Luke Staley (and Daniel Coats, and Scott Pettis).

CAREER RECEIVING YARDS

Jacobson moved up one spot to 17th, ahead of Jonny Harline.

CAREER TACKLES

Jordan Pendleton finished his career in the 111th spot for career tackles at BYU with 130.

CAREER TOTAL OFFENSE

Jake Heaps moved in to 16th place, passing Marc Lyons.

INTERCEPTIONS

So far, the team is averaging 1.3 interceptions per game. That would be the highest average since 2006.

CAREER QB RATING

Heaps’ rating moved up a bit from 110.3 to 112.7, Nelson’s also increased from 147.7 to 148.6. Heaps’ career rating compares with Jason Beck and Bret Engemann. Nelson’s is similar to Robbie Bosco and John Walsh.

SEASON QB RATING

Nelson’s rating for 2011 (159.7) is identical to Brandon Doman‘s rating in 2001.

TEAM SCORING

A good thumping of Idaho lifted BYU’s points-per-game margin from +3.6 to +6.7.

PAT

If Justin Sorensen can go three more games without missing an extra point he will have the BYU record from most PATs without a miss in a season.

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November 9, 2011 · 7:05 pm

Analysis of TE Use in 2011

One of the topics of discussion during the 2010 season and subsequent offseason was the dropoff in production at TE — a position that has consistently been a very productive area for BYU over the years. In 2010, BYU TEs registered 34 receptions for a total of 451 yards. BYU QBs completed a total of 243 passes in 2010, so the 34 receptions represents 14% of all completions last year.

In 2011, the productivity has improved, but still isn’t on par with recent historical norms. In 9 games, BYU TEs have 40 receptions for 474 yards and have caught 22.5% (40 of 178) of all completions. However, a closer look shows that the TE production has dropped off since Riley Nelson took over as QB. Jake Heaps completed 25.0% (27 of 108) of his passes to TEs compared to Riley Nelson’s 18.6% (13 of 70). Here is a breakdown by game for each QB:

Jake Heaps

Opp	Rec	Yds
Miss	4	44
Texas	7	88
Utah	5	64
UCF	5	49
USU	5	41
ISU	1	10
Totals	27	296

Riley Nelson

Opp	Rec	Yds
Utah	1	12
USU	3	27
SJSU	4	82
OSU	3	30
ISU	1	18
TCU	1	9
Totals	13	178

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November 8, 2011 · 7:30 pm

Pass Efficiency Differential Wins Championships

Yesterday’s blog touched on the importance of offensive pass efficiency and its effect on wins and losses. The power of the pass efficiency statistic is increased by taking the difference between a team’s offensive and defensive pass efficiency. This is called the Pass Efficiency Differential (PED). The top 6 teams in this week’s AP Top 25 are all in the top 10 nationally in PED.

AP Rank	Team	PED Rank
1	LSU	4
2	Oklahoma St.	10
3	Stanford	8
4	Alabama	6
5	Boise St.	2
6	Oregon	9

This is far from a fluky result. Note the PED rankings of the national champions since 2000.

Season	Champion	PED Rank
2000	Oklahoma	6
2001	Miami (FL)	2
2002	Ohio State	12
2003	LSU	3
2004	USC	4
2005	Texas	1
2006	Florida	6
2007	LSU	8
2008	Florida	2
2009	Alabama	5
2010	Auburn	7
Average		5.1

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November 7, 2011 · 8:04 pm

Pass Efficiency: The Key To Victory

Pass efficiency is an enigmatic formula that tries to combine various statistical measures into a meaningful whole. The formula is:

Pass Efficiency = Completion% + (8.4 * YdsPerAttempt) + (330 * TDsPerAttempt) – (200 * INTsPerAttempt)

On average, completion percentage and yards per attempt account for 93% of the total pass efficiency measure. If teams can maximize these aspects of their passing game, they will win a very high percentage of the time. For example, since 2001, BYU is 51-2 in games where they completed at least 62% of their passes and averaged at least 7.4 yards per attempt, as shown below:

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November 1, 2011 · 10:50 am

Week 9 stat list update

Once again, with a young team, there isn’t a lot of movement near the top of the stat lists right now. I’ll try to avoid mentioning the overly obscure, like Michael Alisa at No. 83 in career rushing ahead of Ken Call and Kent Oborn.

SEASON PASSING

For the first time this season, Riley Nelson has more passing yards that Jake Heaps.

SEASON QB RATING

Nelson now has more than the 100 attempts needed to show up on the season rating list. His rating for this year dropped from 174.5 to — between Brandon Doman ’01 and Max Hall ’08.

QB RATING

Matt Marshall’s career passer rating took a hit. With a single incomplete pass, his rating dropped from 188.2 to 125.5.

RUSHING

With four games left, JJ DiLuigi needs 326 yards to bump Brian McKenzie out of the top 10 in career rushing.

QB RUSHING

Nelson passes Doman for third in QB rushing.

SEASON QB RUSHING

Nelson has the 6th most rushing yards for a QB in a season, passing Virgil Carter ’66

RECEIVING YARDS

In his Sophomore year, Hoffman is already 54th in career receiving yards, passing Jeff Frandsen, Rod Wilkerson, Tyler Anderson, Toby Christensen and Matt Allen.

TEAM SCORING

BYU’s scoring margin dropped from +5.3 to +3.6.