Team Efficiencies Through Week 6
The chart was created by Twitter user cover2figuRes. Bolded logos represent this week's performance and transparent logos represent season averages. Ohio State has their own tier this season. We're clumped with a bunch of other good teams in the second tier right now. Look at UConn this week!
October 9th, 2022 at 9:20 AM ^
I love that MG watermark. Not a big fan of continuing it with an O.
October 9th, 2022 at 9:27 AM ^
Look at UConn go!
October 9th, 2022 at 9:29 AM ^
Is there a logic to having the scales be unequal? It makes it seem like offense is about 50% more important.
October 9th, 2022 at 9:30 AM ^
Ole Miss is the reason.
October 9th, 2022 at 11:25 AM ^
I’m betting each axis represents the median, which means there are an equal number of teams in each of the four quadrants.
my beef with these graphs is the logos are too big, so that some of them are covered up to the point of being unrecognizable. Charts are usually better than graphs, IMO.
October 9th, 2022 at 12:06 PM ^
The axes/scales and labels on these graphs are a lot to decipher, especially if you’re used to looking at a traditional, four-quadrant graph layout. Usually, the y-axis is negative to positive reading from down to up, but this one runs from positive to negative (to allow for the quadrant 1 to have the best teams and quadrant 4 to have the worst teams). Meanwhile, the labels for the axes are located where you would normally see them for a graph of the first quadrant only (with the axes making an L shape and the y-axis label running up the left and the x-axis label running across the bottom). Four-quadrant graphs usually have the axis with scales forming a t in the center of the graph at the origin (0,0) with the labels being placed closer to the axis that they represent (x-axis middle left/right and y-axis middle top/bottom). I understand the choices, but it makes you read the graph very carefully.
October 9th, 2022 at 1:09 PM ^
Scale and cropping are selected to get all of it on the page without having a ton of white space. As noted above, Mississippi is part of the challenge.
Good observation but the chart requires some careful interpretation regardless.
October 9th, 2022 at 9:31 AM ^
PSU is in first quadrant? I couldn't make out the logo clearly. It seems to be right that their offense is not as good as their defense.
OSU seems to be the juggernaut. Let us see how they do late October when things get colder.
We are staying pretty close to Georgia and better than Bama in offense.
Going to be a great year and can't wait for next weekend's game.
October 9th, 2022 at 9:42 AM ^
Let's see how they do in late November, when things get Wolverinesier!
October 9th, 2022 at 9:33 AM ^
That’s not thru week 6 but only week 6. No way Wisconsin is top right if it was season long.
October 9th, 2022 at 9:41 AM ^
It's both. Take a look at the key at the top of the chart.
October 9th, 2022 at 9:33 AM ^
Like to see us remain in that location after next week!
October 9th, 2022 at 10:15 AM ^
I'm reading some bizarre stuff this morning:
Michigan might fall out of the Top 4. Some voters are going with Clemson there. But there's probably not enough votes for it to happen.
October 9th, 2022 at 10:24 AM ^
Pretty sure Michigan would beat Clemson how they beat Iowa - steady, methodical, and completely. Having seen Clemson a couple of times, I'm not impressed. They're a typical ACC team that isn't scary...
October 9th, 2022 at 10:31 AM ^
Clemson's QB is 100 times better than Iowa's, so I don't know who would beat who. Maybe you're right. But the fact that Michigan might drop would seem rash by the voters. But if M runs the table, and wins the BIG10 Championship, they will be in the playoffs.
October 9th, 2022 at 11:42 AM ^
None of that matters until the final week of the season when the playoff selection is complete. Michigan can be ranked 10th in the AP for all I care right now.
October 9th, 2022 at 11:41 AM ^
So, Alabama is going to drop as well? They were a dumb play away from losing the game.
October 9th, 2022 at 12:58 PM ^
SEC teams are allowed to have close games against other SEC teams. Because the SEC is just sooo good from top to bottom.
October 9th, 2022 at 11:41 AM ^
I enjoy arguing about the rankings as much as anyone, but they're pretty much irrelevant at this point.
If Michigan wins out (including the Big Ten Championship game), they'll be in the Playoff.
The non-conference opponents are pitiful, but there's no way a 13-0 Michigan team doesn't make the Playoff.
If we lose to PSU, but beat OSU and then make/win the Big Ten Championship game, do we get in over an undefeated Clemson team? Not sure, but I would assume there will be enough other chaos between now and the end of the season so that we'd get in in this scenario.
October 9th, 2022 at 10:37 AM ^
Apropos of nothing, and not sure where to put my officiating take, but here is as good a place as any. Those referees should have been stuffed into a VW beetle like the clowns that they are and driven out of Big Ten country yesterday. Not only did they make horrible calls, and way too many of them, but watching five uptight wannabe attorneys discuss every play for five minutes before rendering a decision is going to literally kill this game. The head ref should be suspended and taken out to the referee woodshed for some re-education. In trying to maintain his idea of control of the game, he basically ruined it, especially the first half.
October 9th, 2022 at 10:49 AM ^
Exactly. At first I thought they had it out for Michigan. Then they just turned out to be incompetent.
October 9th, 2022 at 10:47 AM ^
Bama better hope to get Bryce Young back healthy next week against Tennessee. Their offense does not hum consistently with their backup QB in the game and their position on this graph for this week looks about right.
October 9th, 2022 at 12:37 PM ^
Tennessee is going to be rabid about this game all week, they'll be up for this game more than any other in the last 20 years because they have a legit shot at winning, and they know it. If Bama has to roll with a backup QB in his 2nd start, at Tennessee, they are going to be in real trouble. UTenn has a legit Top 10 claim this season.
October 9th, 2022 at 10:56 AM ^
Lincoln really gutted OU on his way out. Yeesh
October 9th, 2022 at 11:51 AM ^
Deja Vu
October 9th, 2022 at 2:05 PM ^
Are they really that gutted? This doesn't look that bad.
October 9th, 2022 at 11:38 AM ^
Football is so much a game of inches, What Ifs and close calls. If Ewers doesn’t get hurt Texes likely beats Bama. What they did to OU was scary. It takes a lot of luck to go undefeated.
If not for a HORRIBLE reversal of a M touchdown against Sparty last year we would have played in the CFP finals having beaten Cinci in the semi final game.
October 9th, 2022 at 12:11 PM ^
OU sucks is the thing. They can't defend anybody and lost both their top two QBs to transfers and then their transfer QB got knocked out.
October 9th, 2022 at 12:42 PM ^
Venables coordinated some pretty good defenses at Clemson and I thought he'd improve that B12 unit OU has always fielded. Maybe he will later, but right now it's worse than your generic B12 crappiness. Really bad... But that putrid offense isn't helping, either. They are not playing Ferentz's 'complimentary football'!
October 9th, 2022 at 12:50 PM ^
I believe the committee would've still moved the seedings around to make sure Alabama and Georgia didn't have an immediate rematch. They would've probably just made Cincinnati #3 and Georgia #4 in the playoffs.
October 9th, 2022 at 2:07 PM ^
There was no way the committee was going to have Bama and Georgia play in the semifinal, right after they played in the SECCG. If we were #1, Georgia would have been #4.
October 9th, 2022 at 6:25 PM ^
Doc, Looking at the chart, I see a large bat attacking my mother. What does it mean?