Statistical Highlights After Week 5

Submitted by imdeng on

The game against Indiana strengthened our already lofty rankings on the offense side and further weakened our abysmal rankings on the defense side. No surprise there. Anyways - here are the statistical highlights after Week 5 games:

Team Rankings:

  • #2 in Total Offense, #3 in Rushing Offense, #9 in Scoring Offense. Oregon is ahead of us in Total Offense by 4 yards per game.
  • We are now a very respectable #37 in Rushing Defense - although that is mainly because we are dead last in the country (#120) in Passing Defense. They combine to give us #102 in Total Defense.
  • We are #1 in the country in Sacks Allowed - just one sack allowed so far.

Indiviual Rankings:

  • Denard remains the #1 Rusher in the country. He is still #2 in Total Offense - the top spot now belongs to Bryant Moniz of Hawaii.
  • Roundtree is doing pretty well considering our emphasis on run - he is #46 in receptions per game and #60 in receiving yards per game.

Sagarin Rankings:

  • We are #23 for the combined ranking. There is now a significant difference between our ELO_Chess (#14 rank) and Predictor (#29 rank). This basically means than although we are winning, we are winning with a smaller margin than expected. The good thing is that ELO Chess is what counts in the BCS rankings - so as long as we keep winning it doesn't matter how we win.
  • For those worrying about MSU's win over Wisconsin, note that MSU is #28 and if we give the usual 3 point home advantage, then Saragin gives us a 5.57 point advatage over MSU.
  • The usual disclaimer about not enough connections / bayesian in Sagarin's data as of Week 5 applies. After next week we will have enough connections for Sagarin's predictions to be non-bayesian.

Thoughts?

(Edit - missed to copy the link to the data: http://web1.ncaa.org/football/exec/rankingSummary?org=418&year=2010&wee… )

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