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Our pass defense statistics looked bad after our first five games, but we’d faced Under Stanford Control (again), Rosen, Browning and Falk over that stretch, and played those last two games without Meeks and Holder.  Over our last eight games, however, our pass efficiency defense ranked in the top 15 in the country, and over the entire season it ranked 25th.

Our pass rush wasn’t like 2014’s, but we still sacked quarterbacks on 7.8% of their pass attempts. That ranked 23rd in the country and second in the Pac-12 (to Utah).

Hey Hulk, can you let us know where those stats came from - seems like an interesting source.

I guess you may have calculated the PER for various groups of games yourself - that's easy enough (if not necessarily the national ranking).

I cannot find the sack rate as such. Football Outsiders obviously uses it, but I only saw "adjusted sack rate", "sack rate on standard downs", and "sack rate on passing downs".

By the way, Stanford came in at #17 in the country on adjusted sack rate - i.e. sack rate adjusted for strength of opponents. Much better than I would have thought. Also surprising to me, S&P+ thinks Stanford's run defense was a little better than its pass defense in 2016.

[CTcard]

Our pass defense statistics looked bad after our first five games, but we’d faced Under Stanford Control (again), Rosen, Browning and Falk over that stretch, and played those last two games without Meeks and Holder.  Over our last eight games, however, our pass efficiency defense ranked in the top 15 in the country, and over the entire season it ranked 25th.

Our pass rush wasn’t like 2014’s, but we still sacked quarterbacks on 7.8% of their pass attempts. That ranked 23rd in the country and second in the Pac-12 (to Utah).

Hey Hulk, can you let us know where those stats came from - seems like an interesting source.

I guess you may have calculated the PER for various groups of games yourself - that's easy enough (if not necessarily the national ranking).

I cannot find the sack rate as such. Football Outsiders obviously uses it, but I only saw "adjusted sack rate", "sack rate on standard downs", and "sack rate on passing downs".

By the way, Stanford came in at #17 in the country on adjusted sack rate - i.e. sack rate adjusted for strength of opponents. Much better than I would have thought. Also surprising to me, S&P+ thinks Stanford's run defense was a little better than its pass defense in 2016.