read option efficiency

Submitted by UMfan21 on
just something I've been thinking about, but I lack the stats skills of some of you, so I'm throwing it out there to see if anyone can crunch the numbers for a diary. since the read option is the "base play" in a sense I have been wondering how accurate each of the 3 qbs will be at making the right read. is there a way to "UFR" every read option to determine the reads and then take into account the RB and the yards to not only measure the QB decision making, but the overall read option efficiency? the assumption is that better qb decision making will lead to better offense, but may not be independent of superb RB play or dilithium sorry for bad grammar, posted on mobile device.

UMfan21

August 31st, 2010 at 7:00 PM ^

Well that's why I was thinking it would be something worth tracking this year. 

 

Brian does a fantastic job with the UFR as a whole grading players decision making and performance.  I just thought it might be neat to take the read option as a microcosm of the offense and focus on it- especially now that Denard should be running it (and be good at it).

I would do it myself, but with two young kids I doubt I'd have the time to rewatch the games and decide who made good/bad reads and for what yards. 

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Tacopants

August 31st, 2010 at 5:33 PM ^

Run Read Options exclusively.  Document how many times you, with a better angle and view of the read make the correct call.  That's about how many times you should expect the QB to make the right call.

Seriously, try it.  I usually make the right decision, but not always.  It's much harder in real life.

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Chadillac Grillz

August 31st, 2010 at 5:55 PM ^

shotgun 2RB and a TE (whatever the 1st shotgun formation ison top) with Toussaint and almost always give it to him. Works like a charm. Also, when you want the QB to keep...just hold x until the ball carrier is almost at the point of the handoff then let go of x and the QB will keep it. This freezes defenders.

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MaizenBlueBP

August 31st, 2010 at 5:56 PM ^

Execution with he zone read option is tough to get down.  As a quarterback you have to know a lot of things and make a lot of quick decisions.  Off of every zone read that is run the quarterback is going to read the backside end.  If the end crashes up the field then he's got to hand the ball off, if the defensive end begins chasing the runningback the quarterback is to keep this.  There is also a bubble screen that is ran off of this play every time for an additional option.  So the quarterback is responsible for making 3 reads very quickly.  Proper execution comes with experience and time.  I think now that Denard and Tate have been in the system for a year now this will lead to much better execution.  When DG was with Inkster they run a similar system to RR so he may actually have more experience with the zone read even though it was in High school.  All in all we are in a very good position for this season and the future.

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Looukey

August 31st, 2010 at 7:15 PM ^

Brian tried to create a metric to track this in last year's offensive UFRs, but I think he abandoned it after a few games because it wasn't very useful.

Not only is it incredibly difficult to determine what the correct read should have been in many of the situations when its not a simple matter of reading the defensive end, there was a great deal of debate about which plays were actual read options and which plays were called runs for either the running back or the quarterback.

Without knowing the actual play calls and the coaching points.  This is almost an impossible task.

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