As many of you already know, I am a big fan of ANY/A stats (Adjusted Net Yards Per Attempt) as well as the differential between a team’s offensive and defensive ANY/A numbers. Why? Well, I think it’s obvious when you closely examine those stats over the course of the last 20 years that you can build pretty solid power rankings off of them on a week-to-week basis because of how the game now revolves mostly around passing.
Today, I wanted to look at the history of the defensive ANY/A stat as it relates to teams making the Super Bowl.