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It's not really that crazy to think about how many games were involved.

All purpose yards combines efficiency and workload to measure total contribution to a team. Noting that McCaffrey got there on fewer touches indicates more efficiency. However, you really don't want to go all in on yds/touch - there's a ton of guys with more yds/play than McCaffrey. These guys aren't nearly as valuable as McCaffrey as they don't carry nearly the offensive load.
[For example, the #3 guy is a Texas Tech receiver who averages 17.5 yds/touch to McCaffrey's 8.5 but he only has 124 touches to McCaffrey's 410. ]


So, yds/game doesn't take into account pace of play or how the game has changed in the past 26 years, but it's probably the best option for comparing All Purpose Yards.
[... at least that is readily available - I might like All Purpose Yards per drive, but good luck finding that.]

Oh it's not crazy to mention that it took more games, that context is essential. But just saying that makes one think that they got about the same number of touches per game, so Sanders was more efficient and carried more load. Knowing that Sanders carried more of the load but was slightly less efficient than McCaffrey makes the whole view more nuanced, and makes McCaffrey's performance more impressive.

Incidentally, was Sanders getting 40 touches a game or something? It's kind of amazing that he somehow got more total touches in 11 games than McCaffrey got in 13. We use McCaffrey a lot!

[stupac2]

It's not really that crazy to think about how many games were involved.

All purpose yards combines efficiency and workload to measure total contribution to a team. Noting that McCaffrey got there on fewer touches indicates more efficiency. However, you really don't want to go all in on yds/touch - there's a ton of guys with more yds/play than McCaffrey. These guys aren't nearly as valuable as McCaffrey as they don't carry nearly the offensive load.
[For example, the #3 guy is a Texas Tech receiver who averages 17.5 yds/touch to McCaffrey's 8.5 but he only has 124 touches to McCaffrey's 410. ]


So, yds/game doesn't take into account pace of play or how the game has changed in the past 26 years, but it's probably the best option for comparing All Purpose Yards.
[... at least that is readily available - I might like All Purpose Yards per drive, but good luck finding that.]

Oh it's not crazy to mention that it took more games, that context is essential. But just saying that makes one think that they got about the same number of touches per game, so Sanders was more efficient and carried more load. Knowing that Sanders carried more of the load but was slightly less efficient than McCaffrey makes the whole view more nuanced, and makes McCaffrey's performance more impressive.

Incidentally, was Sanders getting 40 touches a game or something? It's kind of amazing that he somehow got more total touches in 11 games than McCaffrey got in 13. We use McCaffrey a lot!