09-19-2016, 06:04 PM
(09-19-2016, 05:45 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:I've mentioned that S&P+ hates us while FEI loves us and I don't get it, but it turns out that Washington has an even bigger discrepancy. They're #25, as stated above, in FEI but they're #4 in S&P+. Do these guys answer fanmail? I'd really love to know what the hell is going on there.
Well, here is one thing that might contribute (though I am going on memory and just might get this backwards).
FEI is based upon drives. So, the numbers that go in are yards per drive (really available yards per drive), points per drive, etc.
S&P is based upon plays - yards per play, etc.
Over the past few years, Stanford has specialized in grinding out drives - at our best doing this efficiently. So, Oregon will hit big plays - and thus have big yards per play, but have lots of drives stall out. Stanford will run 20 play drives so that each play doesn't get so much, but the drive itself is productive.
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Despite that, my memory is that there have been years when this trend was reversed, S&P liked Stanford more than FEI, but I don't quite remember and don't have time to look it up right now and it's entirely possible my memory is faulty here.