Analyzing Florida State’s Success as a Program Part 2: Dynasty Era Defense

Photo by Berstein Associates/Getty ImagesIn part 1 of this series, we looked at how Florida State Seminoles football dynasty era offenses did in terms of Yards per Play (YPP) per game.

Let’s do the same analysis using XmR and Sharpe charts, and see how the defense did in terms of limiting their opponents. The technical details of how to create XmR and Sharpe charts were explained in part 1.

Again, when looking at the XmR chart there are a few things to consider:

Is there is a result above or below the red, three-sigma limit lines? If so, the game performance is out of the normal performance range for the team. Worth investigating why.

Since we are talking about the defense, the lower the mean…