I did this with the defense previously, and finally got around to the offense. Bear with me, Excel Geniuses, as I struggle to make the vlookup to index(match) transition. A lot of the lessons were discussed so often in the UFRs that it's not worth going over them again. Split Zone was their base running play, and they struggled all season to find appropriate counters for what defenses prepared against it because the natural counter for it QB keeper on zone read was not something they could get/were coaching(?) McNamara to do. The officiating got me all house-stompy again. Hassan Haskins was a steely-eyed missile man. Anyway this exercise is about finding things that were new. Favorite Plays? They were a Power and West Coast sorta team, which is to say, pretty Harbaugh. Type of Play Plays YPP EPA/P EPA(T) Power Run 255 5.3 +0.2 +55 Pass Short 219 5.9 +0.2 +41 Inside Zone 163 5.1 +0.2 +26 Pass Deep+Sack 114 10.8 +0.5 +59 Screen/RSO 33 4.3 -0.2 -6 Speed to the edge 33 9.8 +0.5 +16 Pl
Formation Notes: Northwestern kept their safeties down all day so the “Hi” metric is doing more work than normal. I started giving safeties +0.5 in the box if they got within 8 yards within a second after the snap, and +1 in the box if they got closer than that.
Michigan had a formation where the slot receiver and tight end switched spots. When they did this I denoted it with “Flip” then the position headers, so this is Gun YH Flip.
Substitution Notes: Filiaga (RG) and Barnhart (LG) went all day for injured Keegan and Zinter. Just one snap for McCarthy until Michigan had a comfortable lead in the second half. Roman Wilson returned but his snaps were mostly soaked up by the debut of Andrel Anthony as a rotation guy, so by snap count the current order is Johnson, Baldwin, Sainristil, Henning, Anthony, Wilson. Hibner came in before Seltzer when they decided they were up enough to save the mileage on All, and Edwards got a drive until he fumbled it.
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