A look at Panthers turnover stats for the season's 1st quarter since 2015

[KB_fan]

As we all know, Panthers turnover stats were off the charts in 2015 and then dropped off a cliff in 2016 and 2017.

One of the very encouraging trends so far in 2018 is that the turnover stats (giveaways, takeaways, turnover differential, net points off turnovers) look A LOT closer to the 2015 numbers than the past 2 seasons.

Take a look:

 

Giveaways are down.

Takeaways are up.

Panthers Defense is being very stingy on points after Panthers give up the ball, allowing ONLY 7 TOTAL points on 4 giveaways.

The Panthers Offense, however, could do with being a bit more opportunistic in scoring following takeaways..  The current rate of 3.4 points per takeaway is a bit too low.  

But otherwise, these stats are pretty dang promising!

[KB_fan]

And as proof that turnover stats matter, here's another table I created in response to a follower's question twitter.  I'd been posting about Panthers success when winning the field position battle.  Someone asked if that was basically just the same thing as winning the turnover differential.  BOTH field position and winning the turnover differential each week are HUGE indicators of Panthers success:

 

Panthers are an astounding 25-1 since 2015 in games when they've won the Turnover battle in a given week. 

That one loss?  Our 2016 opener in Denver.  I really maintain if we'd won that game (or hadn't had to play it at all) our 2016 season would have been very different.