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Overachievers and Underachievers

mr beauxjangles

By mr beauxjangles,
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The chart below is sorted by the difference in average offensive yards per game and average yards allowed per game. Comparing this measure to each team's record alone, there are three clear underachievers through week six: Cowboys, Eagles, and Panthers. There are a few clear overachievers: Bears, Falcons, Bills, Bucs, and the Niners.

The other six columns show a few possible explanations: turnover margin, penalty yardage, and red zone efficiency.

For the underachievers:


  • Panthers: penalties and turnover margin are potential contributors


  • Eagles: turnover margin and red zone efficiency are potential contributors


  • Cowboys: deplorable red zone efficiency (scoring only one out of every three times)

For the overachievers:


  • Chicago: not much really stands out; if i included a measure of special teams i'm sure that would


  • Falcons: very effective in the red zone


  • Bucs: turnover margin is decent but horrible red zone efficiency and penalties - likely to be serious overachievers


  • Bills: tops in turnover margin and red zone efficinecy help them voercome higher average yards allowed than yards posted


  • Niners: boosted by strong turnover margin

Of course these are all generalizations, but felt compelled to share some crap I was playing around with while bored at work this afternoon. Take from it what you will.

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we are the 4th most penalized team in the league.

we have the 7th highest yards gained vs. yards allowed difference -seventh best in the league.

we are tied at 25th in turnover margin at negative five.

we are 17th in the league in red zone efficiency.

to sum it up, the chart suggests we are a monster, yard-eating offense that marches down the field but can't score in the red zone, commits stupid penalties and turns ball over at terrible times while our defense can't make a stop and get turnovers.

sounds spot on if you ask me.

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