What's up everyone it's JJ Zachary in the editor in chief at fandal and a number

fired dot com and this is episode 342 of the late round podcast when many shows that

are part of the fandal podcast network.

Thanks for tuning in.

I'm tired of the football analytics debates on Twitter they're exhausting.

A few weeks ago I made a threat of tweets after Dave Gettelman said quote people say it's

a passing leak I get that but the top four teams were not in the playoffs the top four

rushing teams were in the playoffs.

The fact that an NFL GM is using this type of logic is ridiculous.

That's why I made the thread.

I wanted to explain to people that it's not about cumulative numbers.

It's about efficiency because as we know game flow will dictate how pass or run heavy

a team actually is.

If a team is leading they tend to run more if they're losing they'll pass.

That's why since 2011 and this is what I talked about in the thread of tweets but since

2011 76% of teams with nine or more wins had a lower overall past rush ratio than they

did in neutral game scripts to put this another way winning teams were more run heavy in

total than they were when games were close and as you increase that wind total the percentage

of teams being more run heavy when not in neutral game scripts increase as well.

At 11 wins 85% of teams were more run heavy in total ratio than in neutral scripts at 12

wins 93%.

At 13 wins every team since 2011 with 13 and more wins had a higher overall past rush

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