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30 Dec 2008

Smarter Stats: DVOA Matchup, Wild-Card Edition

We'll be doing these DVOA Matchups for the Washington Post through the Super Bowl, so enjoy and let me know if there's something you'd like me to include in these going forward. As the field narrows, there will be more text per game.

Posted by: Doug Farrar on 30 Dec 2008

6 comments, Last at 04 Jan 2009, 11:51am by fyo

Comments

1
by Bobman :: Tue, 12/30/2008 - 4:01pm

I love this feature, but yeah, it could use a bit more depth. Maybe comparing a team's sack rate on O vs the other team's on D (or the data from the charting project that you published a few weeks back about which D's and which QBs saw the most non-sack hits and hurries....), or if two teams are likely to rely heavily on the pass, see how the opponents D matches up against 1/2/3 WRs, etc. Nothing new, but I assume space limitations and the number of games prevented more depth.

Next week.

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by Doug Farrar :: Tue, 12/30/2008 - 4:12pm

Right. I had some time constraints yesterday as well, but I do want to get more in-depth as I did with the single-game ones in the reg. season. Look for that next week.

3
by Jacob Stevens (not verified) :: Tue, 12/30/2008 - 6:11pm

I basically did this earlier this morning, just browsing the different stats on this site. Only real difference in conclusion was I thought the Arizona Atlanta matchup was a little closer than some people were thinking, but Arizona's really tanked lately and it wasn't just because they played Philly and New England. All 4 road teams winning?

4
by lifeonmars :: Tue, 12/30/2008 - 8:26pm

Have all four road teams ever won wild card weekend?

5
by Dr. Mooch (not verified) :: Tue, 12/30/2008 - 11:03pm

At least torque the columns around so that offensive DVOA and rank are in a column with the opposing defensive DVOA and ranking.

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by fyo :: Sun, 01/04/2009 - 11:51am

Doug, for the love of the Almighty, please turn off ClearType when you submit tables-as-graphics to the Washington Post (or other website). Some people strongly dislike the color-fringing on sub-pixel font-smoothing, but even if you disregard that group of people, you are still assuming that every single reader is using a monitor like yours (in terms of technology) and, preferably, calibrated exactly like yours.

I'm not sure why the pure text tables are graphics in the first place - that seems really unnecessary - but as is, they are just fugly on many monitors.

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