Comments on: Yards per Carry: RB1 vs. RB2 http://www.footballperspective.com/yards-per-carry-rb1-vs-rb2/ NFL History and Stats Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bryan Frye http://www.footballperspective.com/yards-per-carry-rb1-vs-rb2/#comment-327784 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:32:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=34745#comment-327784 Using a similar data set as yours (all RB1 and RB2 pairs 2002-2016, with teams removed when the true RB2 was a 2TM guy), looked at DVOA differences. In the linked chart, blue is RB1, and orange is RB2. As you may expect, those with lower carry totals are closer to the extremes of the DVOA margins, with the exception of Jonathan Wells, who had a terrible DVOA in 2002. If you can make out the trendline, you can see that RB1s actually tend to produce the higher overall DVOA.

If you use aggregate data, RB1s over this timeframe have produced a DVOA of 0.40%, while RB2s have a DVOA of -1.18%.

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]]> By: Bryan Frye http://www.footballperspective.com/yards-per-carry-rb1-vs-rb2/#comment-327783 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:01:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=34745#comment-327783 What do you do in instances like the 2012 Packers, who had two players tied for the second most attempts?

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