We spent the last week and a half taking a look at different offensive statistics and their relationship with winning. We just finished with total yards and looking how much it was correlated with winning. The correlation was strong, but it begged the obvious question about whether it was better to focus on gaining yards or focus on stopping the other team from gaining yards.
It’s usually here when we have to acknowledge the obvious. If you prevent the other team from scoring points you win. If you score more points you usually win. Studying the obvious doesn’t really help us here.