Throwing Deep Passes Is The New Secret To Winning In The NFL

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		Tech Science Entertainment Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics Law International Video Latest Friday, August 17, 2012 Throwing Deep Passes Is The New Secret To Winning In The NFL Despite the stubbornness of teams like the New York Jets, the NFL is clearly a passing league these days. But is it more important to have a gunslinging quarterback? Is accuracy important? How important is it to protect the football? Is it still important to be able to run the ball well? Below we took a look at several key offensive stats and correlated them to the number of wins in the NFL last season. An R-squared of 1.0 would mean perfect correlation (A predicts B every time) and 0.0 means there is no correlation at all between that stat and winning. As you can see, passing the football is a better indicator of how many games a team will win. In fact, there is almost no correlation between how well a team runs the football and how many games they will win. Also, while turnovers does have some relationship with winning, it is not nearly as important Yards per Passing Attempt and Completion Percentage. Interestingly, there is almost no correlation between the ratio of passes-to-rushes and winning. That indicates that it doesn't matter how often a team throws the football, just that they need to throw it accurately, and for long yardage... Data via Pro-Football-Reference Read » Also On Sports Page Today: MLB Will Start Testing Out A Revamped Replay System This Fall Olympic Sprinter Signs With The New England Patriots A Week After Winning A Silver Medal Here's What 10 Olympic Athletes Are Doing Now That The Games Are Over Watch An NFL Quarterback Shoot Clay Pigeons Out Of The Sky With A Football Advertisement SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Derek Jeter And The Longest Tenured New York Yankees SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: The Red Sox Season Has Already Fallen Apart SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Coaches Think SEC Will Dominate College Football Again In 2012 Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.jobhuntportal11@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the Sports Page RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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