"This uses play-by-play charting of play-action passes from the 2011 through 2017 NFL seasons."
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/06/nfl-establish-the-run-play-action-pass-stats
Here is another article with the same sentiment. There are plenty more to find online if you want to learn something.
You have no clue what your even trying to say.
Besides the fact this was about our defense being top two in points allowed in the fourth and your nonsense about the first quarter defense, while our offense also SUCKED despite going pass heavy, your article was basically pointing out play action was effective across the board. That has no contention to your irrelevant tangent if we use it more with Dak, we’d be more effective. The article SAYS NO SUCH THING and gives two games as a reference point.
The article is also asinine because it states the following:
I count a successful rush as one that gains at least 45 percent of the yardage needed on first down, 60 percent on second down, and 100 percent on third or fourth down.
This is utterly subjective hogwash. Most first downs are 10 yards to go, meaning this guy counts a successful rush as basically 4.5 YPC. This basically eliminates plenty of data.
Secondly, the measurement blows because of arguments like the following:
The massive improvement in play-action efficiency for Denver between 2011 and 2012 is largely due to the quarterback switch from
Tim Tebow to
Peyton Manning.
Does this really need any explanation of why it’s ridiculously absurd? Are you telling me Peyton would be more efficient if he used play action more, because it works for Tebow? Percentage is not even comparable either, because Manning would throw forty times a game, while Tebow completed about ten passes.
Second, this other article is also absurd because of the following:
Not only is there no significant correlation, we actually get a negative relationship, meaning that teams that run the ball more effectively in the first half of the season actually decrease their usage of play action in the second half.
Well yeah, because part of that is dictated by cold weather.
PERCENTAGE is not the same thing as effective anyways.
