Comments on: In 2017, The Best Teams Didn’t Rely On One RB http://www.footballperspective.com/in-2017-the-best-teams-didnt-rely-on-one-rb/ NFL History and Stats Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: JeremyDeShetler http://www.footballperspective.com/in-2017-the-best-teams-didnt-rely-on-one-rb/#comment-332394 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=37344#comment-332394 I see what you are going for with this post, but I’m not sure winning percentage is the argument here. I don’t think the typical argument about this is that the most successful teams are going with a bellcow approach. I think the argument is more that with the success of a few successful 1-back teams, anecdotally it looks like the league is trending back to a bellcow approach. Perhaps looking at league levels of of central tendency (mean & median) or measures of variance (standard deviation, range) over the course of a longer period of time would show a measurable rise/decline in single back versus multi-member backfield. Of course, both ideas have the same issue of injuries derailing a team’s plans. I’m sure Arizona probably wanted to be a 1-back offense this year.

Not sure how long it would take to throw that data together. Going to see if I can come up with something.

]]> By: JeremyDeShetler http://www.footballperspective.com/in-2017-the-best-teams-didnt-rely-on-one-rb/#comment-332393 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:36:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=37344#comment-332393 In reply to Joseph Holley.

For the second point, would you advocate using data from the first 3 quarters of games? That would eliminate most of the backup carrries/yards. Not sure if this data would be easily pulled.

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