A History of Michigan Football (Tableau Viz by William Watkins)
I thought I would share this with the board.
Link's no good.
That's a clown link, bro.
At least he didn't rick roll us
Try this as OP seemed to have link issues
also at a glance, I learned Rich Rod was worse than having no coach at all.
July
August
RICH ROD
October
November
Easy take in retrospect. Would've liked to have seen what happened with a) no interference from the "Lloyd Guys," and b) no bullshit Free Press scam.
RR's first full recruiting class was composite #10 in nation, and included Denard, Lewan, Schofield, Gallon, and Touissant. Post jihad, couldn't overrecruit the bullshit.
Also, he went 3 wins, then 5, then 7, then...? True Sophomore Denard had just set a NCAA record for QB rush yards. Imagine him as a junior and senior.
Was the defense appalling? Yes. Was RR's personality a turn off in some ways? Sure. It's easy to look at the results and conclude he was "bad" but a) he was--by the length of a galaxy--the most unreasonably hamstrung coach in Michigan history (and perhaps college football history) and b) his record was improving and had a young, rising group of stars.
I'm not going to sit here and say he was good. A great leader would have got the Lloyd guys to buy in, fixed the defense, and the Free Press wouldn't have messed with him (probably). However, he did historically good things at WVU, was one of the all-time offensive innovators in the history of football, and did some good things at Arizona--a place where few have succeeded.
i actually dont hate on RichRod- just joking about the numbers in the data. His coaching tenure was flawed for lots of reasons and he didn't redeem himself much at Arizona, but I think many of your points are fair.
Thanks, here is the link. Does anyone know how to edit my post? I cannot find the edit button that once existed.
OP editing not possible in the current site, as I understand, though I think the mods can fix. Not sure though as I can''t create posts myself
Don't worry. They'll fix it during the off season ?
Lmao I work in marketing analytics and I can't decide if I love or hate having tableau on mgoblog
Haa! Suck it up - Tableau is all the rage with the kids these days (as you well know). If you have any form of vector data, you better have a way to show it via Tableau or you'll be deemed obsolete...
this is another source of interesting data - not TABLEAU interesting but....useful
At this rate UM will fall behind OSU for the all time series in approximately 11 years.
Very sad...
This is very cool. Thanks OP.
the obvious take-away is that we need to be scheduling albion and case more frequently, pump up those stats a little.
idk when we played Ann Arbor High School but I'm glad we beat them!
We beat AAHS 62-0 on October 10, 1891.
https://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fbteam/1891fbt.htm
Beat 'em so badly they morphed into Commie High
That 1891 Ann Arbor High team featured Walter Tubbs.
He showed up at the "New" Ann Arbor High graduation ceremonies in April, 1956....there was a light rain that day but Walter took time to talk to everyone who approached him about members and memories of the 1891 Class.
Thanks for sharing my content! It has been really fun doing a deep dive into the the history of the program.
Some interesting finds:
We have played Cornell the 17th most times at 18 games. They are the only top 20 teams in total games that have a winning record against us. Not only that, the first year we played them (1889) they beat us 56-0. The history of the games was actually an even split between home, away, and "neutral" sites. Of the 6 games at home where we went 4-2. At the "neutral" locations in either Detroit, Chicago, or Buffalo we went 1-5. s for the away games we also went a depressing 1-5.
Michigan's first ever game was actually in May. We played Racine in Chicago and the game was a 1-0 win.
Fielding Yost truly dominated his opponents. He has 9 of 10 of our top scores ever. All of which where answered by opponents scoring 0 points. On October 22nd 1904 he outscored West Virginia 130-0.
There is so much interesting data and analysis that can be done thanks to the Bentley Historical Library's records. My next visualization will look into our attendance record and if we will ever achieve Fielding Yost's vision of a stadium that sits 150,000. Michigan Football has always had an amazing following, for reference the open season of Michigan Stadium had 2 games over 83,000 in attendance that is 11,000 more than the official at the time of 72,000. This next project will look into how our fandom was built and continues to grow.
I'm so glad you all have enjoyed my creation and will continue to create more! Please reach out if you have anything that you think would be interesting for me to look into.
Go Blue!
William
I guess this might be an intentional bit of poking fun at Hoke, but you have his victory over Ohio State as a victory over Ohio.
But this was fantastic! Thanks for putting it together.
Thanks for calling that out! It was actually listed as "Ohio" by Bentley. Just fixed it :)
November 13th, 2023 at 6:01 PM ^
Not sure if others will see this comment since this is an old thread but wanted to let everyone know that I do keep this up to date. Since this initial post by Brandon, Michigan is 46-11 with a point differential of +1030. We have won 2 Big Ten Titles and had a record setting season with 13 wins. We currently are undefeated and look to be the first program to reach 1000 wins and cap off the season with an epic 119th edition of THE GAME.
A History of Michigan Football
Hope you all enjoy this again and Go Blue!