2023 Week 5: UW Football at Arizona

[Captain 97]

I also noticed that you left the touchdowns out.
I appreciate your attempt, but cherry picking stats doesn't do much for me.

Williams had 1 TD pass not exactly lighting it up.

[D-train]

TD passes seem a bit over rated to me. What is more impressive. Passing for 90 yards on a 91 year drive and having your RB punch it in or having your RBs run for 90 yards and throwing a 1 yard screen pass for a TD.

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

I also noticed that you left the touchdowns out.
I appreciate your attempt, but cherry picking stats doesn't do much for me.

Williams had 1 TD pass not exactly lighting it up.

I totally agree. I would rather see the entire stat line rather than just the stats that Penix owned Williams with. I think it keeps it more open to interpretation.

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

TD passes seem a bit over rated to me. What is more impressive. Passing for 90 yards on a 91 year drive and having your RB punch it in or having your RBs run for 90 yards and throwing a 1 yard screen pass for a TD.

And it's more impressive to me to have:
35 TD and 2 Ints
rather than
50 TD and 19 Ints

There are so many ways to look at the stat lines, and the voters seem to look more at:
TD's
Int's
Yards
Completion percentage

[D-train]

Best stat imo is Yards per attempt...

[D-train]

Ha. Penix leads it. I assumed he would be up there but had no idea where.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs ... vidual/908

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

Best stat imo is Yards per attempt...

How? If a QB just throws the ball 65 yards down immediately every plan, you would call that the most important stat?

I can understand "yards per completion", but per attempt can get loaded pretty fast.

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

I can also understand putting a lot of weight on "explosive plays". But just yards per attempt; I don't know.

So someone can have the following stat line:


pass attempts over 20 yards, 30
Completions, 1
Yards, 25
TD, 0
Int, 0

This almost looks like something Army or Air Force would have.

[D-train]

Best stat imo is Yards per attempt...

How? If a QB just throws the ball 65 yards down immediately every plan, you would call that the most important stat?

I can understand "yards per completion", but per attempt can get loaded pretty fast.

Yards per attempt incorporates completion %.

Throwing 30-40 for 300 yards is far superior to 25-50 for 300 yards even though the latter has higher yards per completion.

[D-train]

I can also understand putting a lot of weight on "explosive plays". But just yards per attempt; I don't know.

So someone can have the following stat line:


pass attempts over 20 yards, 30
Completions, 1
Yards, 25
TD, 0
Int, 0

This almost looks like something Army or Air Force would have.

You only count your yards passing not "yards" for incomplete passes which is a stat that doesn't even exist.