FSU football: Detailed look at promising offensive line improvement in 2020
By Kelvin Hunt
If you’ve been a long-time reader of the site, you know I try to provide context and stats to back up my thoughts. I’m turning to Football Outsiders and their advanced metrics to compare the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
Here’s the glossary to understand each area:
"Standard Downs Line Yards per Carry: The raw, unadjusted per-carry line yardage for a team on standard downs (first down, second-and-7 or fewer, third-and-4 or fewer, fourth-and-4 or fewer)."
"Opportunity Rate: The percentage of carries (when four yards are available) that gain at least four yards, i.e. the percentage of carries in which the line does its job, so to speak."
"Power Success Rate: This is the same as on the NFL side — percentage of runs on third or fourth down, two yards or less to go, that achieved a first down or touchdown."
"Stuff Rate: Same as STUFFED on the NFL side — percentage of carries by running backs that are stopped at or before the line of scrimmage."
2019
- Standard Downs Lines YPC: No. 116
- Opportunity Rate: No. No. 66
- Power Success Rate: No. 105
- Stuff Rate: No. 112
2020
- Standard Downs Lines YPC: No. 23
- Opportunity Rate: No. 8
- Power Success Rate: No. 47
- Stuff Rate: No. 41
Those numbers show drastic improvement. If you want to remove the Jordan Travis factor, look no further than the Stuff Rate stat.