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Cake day: November 10th, 2023

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  • After looking at the chart again, there appears to be a negative average receiver separation for Fields, which doesn’t make any sense and means that there’s a baseline that is not provided; and further, what then constitutes an “open receiver”? I’d imagine that this measurement is something like this: The separation of the receiver a QB throws to less the baseline, divided by the sum of all of the receivers’ separation, expressed as a percentage. The y-axis is probably a piecewise function for each time a receiver had more than the baseline amount of yards over total number of throws. So, if the baseline is 2 yards, and we have a set of 5 throws expressed in yards = {1, 3, 12, 4, 15}, and the % of throws to open receivers is the horizontal line 80%, because 1 < 2, which is 0, and the rest of the throws are greater than 2, so (0+1+1+1+1)/5 = 80%.


  • Logically, 0.04 yards is 1.44 inches, which doesn’t make any sense. Because he is counting in hundredths, and there are also 100 yards on the field (meaning 0.01 is 1 yard), that is probably what he is referring to. Which means that given an average receiver separation of around 3.8 yards (11.4 feet), he is throwing to them a little less than 60% of the time.