A few years ago I added some code to apply “punt sadness score” and search for bad ones. I never really followed up because the play-by-play data was pretty polluted. Doing the API v2 cleanup reminded me of it so let’s see what running it against 2024 comes up with. Disclaimer up front: This idea… Continue reading The worst punt of 2024
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Bad punts bad punts
Watching David Shaw and Stanford make some more sadly predictably terrible punt decisions last Saturday it occurred to me that we can use the cfbd data to figure out exactly how bad they were. The surrender index was first described by Jon Bois in this video, and now there’s an excellent twitter bot that tracks… Continue reading Bad punts bad punts