Success Rate

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Interesting article by Hail Varsity

Ask me to boil Nebraska’s time at Big Ten media days down to one word, and I’d use “efficiency.” There are at least two big reasons why this is potentially problematic:

1. Every coach, whether he says it or not, is after “efficiency.” Most of them do say it in one way or another, but even if its never spoken it’s still sought after almost inherently. For all of the grand depictions of football as high-speed chess, the clever gambits and well-disguised attacks are fun and nice, but only if they result in you beating your opponent on more of the 140 or so total plays in a given game. That’s basically football efficiency. Win on a play-by-play basis more often.

2. Every coach and player in the country is saying they’re going to do things better at this time of the year. It’s a hopeful time.
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Especially this graphic


http://infogr.am/2013-success-rate?src=embed

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It kills me that we outplayed Sparty, AGAIN, but lost last year. They have this awesome defense, but for all Beck's follies & foibles, he seems to be able to move the ball against them. Kinda like how Northwestern has that ability to play with us, despite the talent gap.

I listened to an interview Mike Welch did with Kirk Ferentz about last year's Iowa game. Ferentz said that game was way more competitive than the final score showed, and while memory doesn't paint it that way, and the score certainly doesn't, Vogel's graphic (43% success rate for Nebraska, 46% for Iowa) certainly backs Ferentz' claim.

 
knapplc said:
It kills me that we outplayed Sparty, AGAIN, but lost last year. They have this awesome defense, but for all Beck's follies & foibles, he seems to be able to move the ball against them. Kinda like how Northwestern has that ability to play with us, despite the talent gap.

I listened to an interview Mike Welch did with Kirk Ferentz about last year's Iowa game. Ferentz said that game was way more competitive than the final score showed, and while memory doesn't paint it that way, and the score certainly doesn't, Vogel's graphic (43% success rate for Nebraska, 46% for Iowa) certainly backs Ferentz' claim.
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Yup, and the new fangled advanced stats (I'm loving this stuff) agree with you regarding MSU. Even against Iowa, we made a bunch of dumb mistakes to kill ourselves (shocking, I know). We outgained them (as we did MSU) but lost the TO battle. Now where have I seen that before...

 
Interesting article. +1

It seems like success rate might be more valid for running plays than for passing plays. Since passing plays tend to be all or nothing for longer gains. Good stat to keep in mind though.

 
Both took it to us but both were very winnable at one point.

 
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HUSKER FREAK said:
Minnie didn't kick our a$$. Our coaches made a really dumb decision and it through the whole damn team off.
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We marched down the field and scored easily on Minny that first drive. The team didn't look thrown off there. What it looked like was they took Minnesota for granted, figured it would be an easy win, and lifted the foot off the gas. Minnesota proceeded to take advantage.

 
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