In this season’s first Graphing the Tide yesterday, I mentioned a new format I’ll be trying out for this season: Graphing the SEC. In this column, I’ll gather all of the SEC team’s games that week, break out their topline efficiency (SR) and explosiveness numbers (XR) into tables, and sort those from best to worst.
Some data definitions
Success Rate (SR) is the rate of an offense’s snaps that can be considered “successful plays” according to a metric often used in football stats circles. It’s the same one we use in the Graphing the Tide series, and you can see the breakout in my primer from last season:
These are fancy metrics, based on simple foundations that inform Bill Connelly’s SP+ system.