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Lordandmaster -> RE: NFL Sob (or Brag) Thread (1/3/2011 12:28:47 AM)
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Some statistic oddities that I noticed from going over the final 2010 numbers:
1. Jamaal Charles rushed 230 times for 1467 yards and a 6.4 yards-per-carry average. 6.4? Are you kidding me? The all-time record for running backs is held by Beattie Feathers, who gained 8.4 yards-per-carry in 1934 (119-1004), but I daresay the game was a little different back then. Michael Vick also got 8.4, his career high, in 2006: 123-1039. The only other 1,000-yard back with that kind of average was Jim Brown in 1963: 291-1863, for 6.4 (which is possibly the best single season that any running back has ever had). So it's a pretty extraordinary achievement by Charles and I haven't heard anyone comment on it. Charles's career yards-per-carry is now at 6.0, which isn't going to last, but is an impressive number nonetheless. (Another thing I noticed while looking into this: the Rams of the early 1950's must have had an amazing offensive line, because three of the best yards-per-carry averages in the history of football were registered by running backs on the 1951, 1953, and 1954 Rams.)
2. From what I can tell (don't have time to do it the scientific way), BenJarvus Green-Ellis ranks first this year, at least among featured backs, in a stat that I look at (and no one else seems to): first downs plus touchdowns, all divided by total rushes. Green-Ellis had 13 TD's and 62 first downs in only 229 carries. In other words, on 32.8% of his carries, he got a first down or touchdown. Awesome. That's one carry better than Jamaal Charles, who also had 75 TD's or first downs, but in 230 carries, or 32.6%. But both were slightly better than Arian Foster, the league leader in rushing yards AND touchdowns (32.1%). (Vick as a rusher got 47.0%, but you can't look at QB rushing stats in the same way because you'd have to factor in sacks to make it fair.)
3. I like Peyton Hillis, but fumbling the ball 8 times in 270 carries is awful.
4. Congratulations to the Steelers' Mike Wallace for leading the league in the only stat that matters: receiving yards divided by targets (1257-100, or 12.57 yards per target). That's even better than DeSean Jackson, who was awesome as usual (1056-96, or 11.00 yards per target). The receivers to average more than 10 yards per target were few and far between. Besides Wallace and Jackson, there were (among receivers with at least 500 receiving yards; otherwise the stat becomes kinda meaningless): Greg Jennings, Johnny Knox, Anthony Armstrong, Antonio Gates, Kenny Britt, and Patrick Crayton. Let's hear it for Anthony Armstrong!
5. Wallace also did very well in the same stat that I mentioned above for running backs: first downs plus touchdowns, all divided by targets. Wallace was at 56.8%, which is great. DeSean Jackson wasn't even close (40.6%), and Roddy White, everyone's definition of a possession receiver this year, got only 46.4%. But no one came anywhere near Antonio Gates: 78.8%, an amazing number. Think about it. When the Chargers targeted Gates, 78.8% of the time they got a first down or touchdown. They really missed him down the stretch.
6. Obviously Tom Brady's record streak of consecutive passes without an interception is amazing, but his overall total of 4 interceptions in 492 attempts (or 0.8%) is mind-boggling too. The "record" interception percentage for a single season is 0.4% by Damon Huard, who threw a single interception in 244 attempts in 2006. That's awesome, but it was in half a season of work, so it can't really compare. The only other full-time starter in the modern era to have only 4 interceptions was Steve DeBerg, who threw 4 interceptions in 444 attempts in 1990 (also for Kansas City). That was a very strange year for DeBerg, who was not a great quarterback and had a career interception percentage over 4.0%.
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