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Stat of the Week

Week 18--
The STAT OF THE WEEK feature highlights the one stat contributing most points to the victory.

Washington Redskins--Tampa Bay Bucs

Points per Pass Att (1.1 vs 0.3) contributed 21.5 points to the 7-point win.

The Stat of the Week contributing most points to Coach Joe Gibbs' Redskins was Points per Pass (PPP). The 'Skins overwhelmed Coach John Gruden's Bucs earning 1.1 PPP vs an insignificant 0.3 points per toss.

The 'Skins were almost four times more powerful on balance than the Bucs on our most important Killer Stat. This large performance differential contributed a big 21.5 Points per Game to the Redskins' 7-point victory. This stat suggests the 'Skins coulda' or shoulda' won by more.

How did they do it? With a very efficient passing attack and a pounding running game: With only 1 intercept vs 2 for the Bucs, the 'Skins raked in a 5-point advantage. And with 2 QB sacks vs 3 for the Bucs they added 2.9 poiints more. Together these two stats made up 7.9 points, fully accounting for the 7-point victory.

Question? How many passes did Coach Joe Gibbs call? How about 16? That is a modest number indeed. But when you don't pass you aren't sacked or intercepted (simple mistakes that cost 3 points for the sack and 5 points for the INT).

They are costly errors.

Go back in history for a moment and check the Miami Dolphins' average number of pass attempts per game for their entire championship season. How about 18 passes per game (lo for the league). The Dolphins' RBs Larry Csonka, Jim Kick and Mercury Morris took the lead held it with a ball-control running game.

This Redskins-Bucs playoff game had other interesting stat performances. Neither team did well on Yards per Pass, a key measure of efficiency. The Bucs bettered the 'Skins with 4.1 yards per toss vs only 1.4 yards for the winning Redskins.

These are puny passing efficiency performance values.

Coach Gibbs did it on the ground with 80% of his total yards earned by running the ball, running the ball, running the ball.

Just as RB Riggins did when Coach Gibbs took the Redskins to the Super Bowl.

Bud Goode

Points per Pass Att

Washington Redskins

2005 through Week 17

Points per Pass Att

Tampa Bay Bucs

2005 through Week 17

Points per Pass Att

Percentile Chart
100=Stongest 50=Average 0=Weakest
Lines: Playoff Avg=74 SuperBowl Avg=69
Win Mrg Points Change
Winning Margin Points Change
Sorted by Points Change, 2004 to 2005

Rank Team Pctl Stat
Value Points
behind
Leader Win Mrg
Pts Chg
vs 2004 Games
Won
1 PIT 100 1.03 0.00 -0.30 11
2 SEA 88 0.95 1.70 5.99 13
3 CAR 74 0.87 3.64 4.87 11
4 IND 71 0.85 4.11 -3.27 14
5 DEN 71 0.85 4.14 2.76 13
6 K C 62 0.79 5.41 -1.55 10
7 S D 61 0.79 5.42 -4.59 9
8 CIN 59 0.78 5.70 1.98 11
9 ATL 59 0.78 5.80 -1.93 8
10 NYG 55 0.76 6.32 2.77 11
11 WAS 53 0.75 6.55 6.53 10
12 JAX 53 0.74 6.67 5.44 12
13 N E 41 0.67 8.29 -5.36 10
14 DAL 37 0.65 8.80 2.00 9
15 CHI 33 0.62 9.45 3.08 11
16 T B 32 0.62 9.59 0.66 11
17 S F 31 0.61 9.63 3.57 4
18 STL 30 0.61 9.83 1.31 6
19 MIN 29 0.60 9.97 -3.13 9
20 BUF 28 0.59 10.19 -6.23 5
21 HOU 26 0.58 10.46 -1.80 2
22 MIA 24 0.57 10.62 2.40 9
23 NYJ 14 0.51 12.06 -5.84 4
24 TEN 13 0.50 12.23 -1.89 4
25 PHI 12 0.50 12.31 -4.81 6
26 OAK 11 0.49 12.52 -1.38 4
27 DET 11 0.49 12.58 -2.28 5
28 G B 8 0.48 12.87 -5.45 4
29 BAL 8 0.47 12.97 -4.91 6
30 CLE 7 0.47 13.10 -3.81 6
31 ARI 7 0.46 13.14 -1.61 5
32 N O 0 0.42 14.06 -5.08 3
2005 Season, YTD through Week 17

In season 2004 Redskins ranked 31st on Points per Pass Att at 0.47.
In season 2005 they ranked 11th at 0.75, up 6.5 points per game on this one stat.
From 2004 to 2005 Redskins improved by 5.7 points per game on Winning Margin.