The Value of Things: Looking at Overall Offense

We spent last week looking at rushing yards and receiving yards and comparing it with overall team success. Today, we graduate to overall offensive yards. Obviously, we expect stronger correlations here, but that is not ultimately what we are after. We will also look at defensive numbers and compare how they correlate with winning to what we are seeing here today.

In other words, does offense win championships or are the pundits right when they say defense wins championships? Of course, the likely result is a balance between the two. We will use the same methodology we used for passing and rushing. We will look at the best team, the league MVP (de facto offensive player of the year), and…