Last week I wrote about two of my favorite offseason milestones: 1. ACC releasing team schedules for the upcoming season and 2. Bill Connelly’s returning production rankings. What I embarrassingly forgot to remember was that there’s a third milestone that completes my holy trinity of the early off season: Bill Connelly’s Preseason SP+ Projections($)!
For the uninitiated nerds who have not followed Connelly’s SP+ (formerly “S&P+. why? some legal mumbo jumbo apparently) analytics in the past, let me get you up to speed real quick. SP+ is data set of tempo- and opponent-adjusted components of the five factors of college football: Efficiency, explosiveness, field position, and finishing drives.