Do you know where to get breakdowns by the Aikman Efficiency Formula? Or do you calculate it yourself?
There have been numerous discussions about passing efficiency on this board and how it correlates to winning and that the rushing stats don't correlate to winning very well. And there was a formula that was put up by the poster AdamJT. And the formula almost always shows that the team that scored higher is the winning team.
So I was actually thinking that this past game against the steelers might be an anomaly - meaning a game where the formula didn't correlate to the winning team but I couldn't remember the formula so I asked and Percy gave me the formula and actually did the calculation and Dak did have a higher passing efficiency than Ben even though Ben passed for more yards. Ill ppst the formula in my next post as im going to leave this page to go copy and paste it.
Now before anyone asks me - im not discounting the benefits of being able to run the ball and I loved watching Zeke run all over the place - pure awesomeness. Im just stating that once again this formula correlates with the winning team.
To simplify something - i would say I think that what I have seen is that ....
If you run the ball better than your opponent but the opponent but your opponent passes better than you - you will usually lose the game.
If you run the ball poorly but pass better than your opponent you will usually win the game.
But what constitutes passing the ball better ?
Some look at total passing yards. Then their are other rating systems like QB rating total QB, etc, etc. But I was referring to the passing efficiency formula Adam uses.
In addition there are a whole lot of other arguments that could be brought to the table regarding the above statement...such as the fact that if you run the ball poorly you become a one dimensional team and defenses can come after you and play defenses designed to stop the pass making it harder to pass well (though some QB's have consistently passed well without a run game like Rodgers and Manning and others). But this would be a way of saying that the run helps you pass better - though it doesn't always quite work like that.
