Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

I just wrote up a response to something Jesse Johnson wrote on the VandySports private forum about number of plays and YPP being an interesting stat. (Sorry some of the context isn’t here; I’ll see if Jesse lets me reproduce the post I’m replying to.) Jake actually made the same [...]

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Why yes, yes someone did.   I meant to bring this up, but cocknfire already did on Team Speed Kills so I’ll only say a little about it.
I should point out that I don’t agree 100% that Vanderbilt was doing it with smoke and mirrors until the Auburn game, because as discussed ad nauseum there’s at [...]

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Three thoughts I want to get down before I post some blog exchange Q&A:

I want to state again how glad I am that Star & Stripe is back in action, and especially how much I appreciate their Naval Intelligence press review.   From the amount of time that they spend finding neat VU-related stuff on the [...]

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(Fellow stats geeks: Anyone know where I can find data sets with scores and yardage data for I-A over a number of years?   Please comment!)
The heated discussion over what to make of an undefeated team who’s last in the league in both total (yardage) offense and total defense has the entire SEC blogosphere abuzz.   Well, [...]

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Yesterday I listened to WHBQ, even though I’m not in Memphis at the moment, because I wanted to get the semi-Ole Miss perspective on our game.   They were generally very complimentary of our performance, but one point in particular was troubling.   One of the midday hosts (Eli Savoy, maybe?) mentioned that he was talking with [...]

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I can tell that this whole issue of yardage versus win-loss record is going to come up again and again on VandySports, so I’m just going to babble a lot about it here and hopefully have some posts I can link to rather than repeating the same points over and over again.
First off, thanks to [...]

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Naturally there’s some Vanderbilt-related stuff from Ole Miss:

At Red Solo Cup praises DJ Moore to the skies
At Hotty Toddy Blog, Seth reviews the statistical comparisons.

Regarding the stats, always keep in mind the context.   I can make a case that OM’s schedule has been slightly easier than VU’s to this point.   Wake was an impressive near-miss, [...]

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