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1) Ok, why do announcers keep quoting rushing yard leaders? Sure, if your team runs more than average, you'll have lots of rushing yards, but it seems pretty clear to me that yards/carry matters more than raw yards, right? Or, really carry-yards above average.

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2) The correlations here are surprisingly low, especially early in the season! Some correlations: yds vs yds/carry: 50% yds vs yds above average: 50% yds/carry vs yds above average: 95%

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3) Of course, neither of these are perfect -- e.g. you want to look at 1st down % as well -- but I'm confused why people default to citing raw yards instead of yards per carry or above average.

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Most people aren’t quants and just want to enjoy sports

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This is a league that just started making good decisions on whether or not to go for it on 4th down ::this year::

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This. They also measure distance with chains still.

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Quick someone relate this to market cap or something

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Sports.

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Because math is hard and we like big numbers.

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Both metrics dont factor in # of defenders in the box which is highly dependent on score and is highly predictive of ypc

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tru dat. how much does it bias between rushers? I'm guessing a decent amount just b/c of quality of RB vs QB...

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Same reason people quote the DOW when citing big market moves. Bigger numbers sound more appealing.