Stat of the Week

Week 5 - Plays per First Down

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

Each stat contributes some point value to both offense and defense. And every week performance varies from hot to cold.

In the week 5 Dallas-Philadelphia game, the stat contributing most to the 23-point Cowboy victory was Plays per First Down. Dallas moved the sticks every 2.9 plays. The Eagles took 7.2 plays.

The huge disparity between two performances contributed 36.4 big points to the 23-point win. They coulda' won by more.

Talk about 'hot' and 'cold' performances, what happened to the Philly offense?

The graphics below picture this statistical outlier (note: higher value of plays per first down equals WEAKER performance). It is unlikely this will occur again this season.

Bud Goode