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So many assumptions being made by our idiotic fan base on this call. Hindsight is 20/20. How do you know it wasn’t lack of execution by OL, poor read by Hooker, etc? That’s the thing, unless you’re in the huddle or booth, you don’t know.
See, the thing is......none of what you just said matters.
Shotgun formation on 4th and inches is a non-starter. The rest is irrelevant.
The loss had more to do with the teams self-inflicted bad execution than anything else. And still had a chance at the end. Starters missing, dumb penalties, fumbles, missing wide open receivers. They did everything they could to give the win to Pitt. I think there is hope here folks, you just have to see it.
He actually did put it in Hookers hand and he decided to hand it off. Would have had a much better chance to score if he keeps it
Not so fast, there, my canine brother. If shotgun in 4th&" is a non starter, then why are coaches who have devoted their lives to the profession and being paid handsomely choosing to run it from RPO set? Are all of those professional coaches making the wrong decision? Are OCs fired because they are calling for that particular play?
Finally found a resource: From StatsbyLopez. On 3rd and one, why do teams go shotgun?
Data is from NFL.
Using data from Armchair Analysis, I looked at the conversion rates of the 7,094 third or fourth and one plays from 2000 to 2014. League-wide, there’s an absolute improvement of about 4.5% (67.5 success rate versus 63%) comparing plays under center versus from shotgun. The difference is statistically significant (and if you want the p-value, it’s about 2 in 10000).
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Finally, it is worth noting that teams are now using the shotgun more often in these situations. While only about 4% of short-yardage plays used the shotgun between 2000 and 2007, this number ballooned to 30% for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. In other words, teams are going shotgun more than ever, and, at least in short-yardage situations, it may be to their detriment.
I posted a stat reference, It happens a lot in college and pros. and, it is happening more frequently.The game has definitely evolved, I'll grant you that. It is a thing, unfortunately, in college. I can't thing of a time I've seen it in the NFL, other than the wildcat business Miami used to try with Ronnie Brown. Short lived for a reason.
I think it is dumb, and seems to bear that out more times than not.
I posted a stat reference, It happens a lot in college and pros. and, it is happening more frequently.
Well, it shouldn't be, and here is a reference to back that up.
Success of Short Yardage Play Types on Fourth Down | Yale Undergraduate Sports Analytics Group
We looked at all 4th and 1 down attempts since the 1998-1999 season, the earliest year data was available, until the 2015-2016 season. This data set includes 3181 plays, about 180 plays per season.
The table below summarizes part of our results. The overall conversion rate during this time frame was 65.7%. This relatively high success rate is a large reason why it is so often considered the smart decision to go for it in short yardage situations.
Play Type Conversion Rate All Plays65.7%Passing Plays58.2%Running Plays67.9%
However, we can look more granurally at conversion rate. Running plays, which include quarterback sneaks, are converted more frequently than passing plays. The true trends stand out even more emphatically with a more detailed investigation of play calling. In the table below, it is easy to see how much more successful quarterback sneaks are than all other play types. 82.8% is significantly higher than the 62.0% of all other plays and suggests they are underutilized. The lower success rate for running plays by non-quarterbacks illustrates the true distinction is between quarterback sneaks and all other plays, not between runnning and passing plays.
Play Type Conversion Rate Quarterback Sneaks82.8%Non-Quarterback Running plays63.4%All Non-Sneaks62.0%
Furthermore, in the graph below of the conversions rates by year, it is immediately evident how much higher the conversion rates are for quarterback sneaks. The consistency of this effect over every year in the sample is also apparent. This consistency suggests that this difference is not caused simply by chance but something fundamentally different about quarterback sneaks.
Good find, Dober. Was that data from NFL or college?
20% higher is noteworthy. Would you estimate a college team is running 4th and 1 about 10 times per year, on average? That's 2 additional conversions.
I see no reason why the data wouldn't translate to college, do you?This was NFL data.
Quarterback sneaks might be particularly susceptible to selection bias. If there are no defenders over the center or it is particularly short yardage (inches instead of a full yard), sneaks may be particularly effective. In fact, on all 4th and 2 plays in the since the 1998-1999 season, quarterback sneaks were successful 89.7% of the time, greater than the 82.8% of the time for 4th and 1. Sneaks were rarer on 4th and 2 plays, happening only 29 times from between the 1998 and the 2015 season, but this shows that sneaks are not only successful for incredibly short yardage situations. Most importantly, quarterback sneaks are so much more valuable and convert so much more frequently than other play types that the effect is likely robust enough even after accounting for these selection biases.
It was in Hookers hands...he handed it off!A terrible idea for sure. Put the ball in Hooker's hands.
The only thing I can figure is that everyone in the stadium thought the same thing, so Heupel tried to do the unexpected.
But sometimes you just go ahead and do the obvious thing. Everyone always expected Jordon to take the last shot, right?