Can you name these 2013 teams based on these team stats?

[Wolvie]

Team A:

11th most offensive yards
7th least yards given up
Put up these numbers while having the toughest strength of schedule through 16 weeks

Team B:
20th most offensive yards
23rd least yards given up
Put up these numbers while having the easiest strength of schedule through 16 weeks

WITHOUT CHEATING, can you name these two teams?

 

[cwood]

I cheated and I'm pretty surprised by the teams. Would have never guessed that.

 

[Wolvie]

I cheated and I'm pretty surprised by the teams. Would have never guessed that.

Surprised the hell out of me when I discovered it too. Had to post it

 

[Broncos6482]

Is team A Arizona?

 

[Broncos6482]

Team B has to be the Chiefs.

 

[STBR 27]

I guessed team A correctly, but not team B, that one is surprising.

 

[Sam Sportboy]

If it wasn't for the 11th in total offensive yards I would guess A as Houston..............they did pile on a lot of yardage early but have sucked shit logs ever since.

 

[MilkSpiller22]

team A- the colts??
Team B- the patriots??


I dont understand SOS so i really guessed on this...

 

[Clayton]

Without cheating, Im guessing Cardinals and Broncos

 

[Barrelman Fan]

I would go with Team A as Arizona and B as NE.

 

[MilkSpiller22]

team A is either the chargers or colts

Team B i would bet that it would be the Patriots...

 

[Clayton]

Wait...the Rams have the toughest SOS, right? Its either them or the Cardinals

The yardage stat doesnt add up, though. Has to be the Cardinals

 

[MileHigh64]

Gotta be Houston and Kansas City. The Texans had a weird year and lost a lot of close games largely due to turnovers. KC has had a tough 3 or 4 game stretch that has to have dropped them statistically.

 

[Wolvie]

Gotta be Houston and Kansas City. The Texans had a weird year and lost a lot of close games largely due to turnovers. KC has had a tough 3 or 4 game stretch that has to have dropped them statistically.

WINNER!

 

[Wolvie]

Its crazy to think that Team A could be 2-13 and Team B is 11-4 with those stats despite their respective SOS. There were a couple of conclusions that I drew from this. First, is that turnovers are HUGE in the NFL. KC is 2nd in the NFL with a +17 turnover margin and have only coughed up the ball 18 times this season (4th best). Houston on the other hand has a -17 turnover margin (tied for worst margin). They have only forced 10 turnovers this season (which actually makes their yards against that much more impressive!).

The simple addition of Alex Smith not turning the ball over has turned a league-worst 2 win team from a year ago, into a double-digit win team (although their extremely easy SOS also has something to do with that).

The other conclusion that I drew from this is that the SOS is, by its very nature, misleading. Go look at the ESPN playoff standings and look at all the teams' SOS. Notice how as you go from first to worst that the SOS of each team gets harder? One could conclude (incorrectly) that the better teams are there because they had easier schedules. But by beating an opponent you are handing them a loss and lowering their winning percentage, which in turn lowers your SOS. The 2-win Texans have the toughest SOS because they keep handing opponents wins! The SOS is also misleading in that your common opponents will also play each other, a lot. This creates 1 win and 1 loss for your SOS calculation, no matter what. So when your team's SOS inches closer to .500, its simply because your opponents are playing each other and not because they are getting tougher or easier

 

[Clayton]

Matt Shaub did have a string of games with pick 6s, right? Not only did they have turnovers but they had the worst kind of turnovers

 

[MilkSpiller22]

yea, didnt houston and The broncos play the exact same AFC teams??

 

[MileHigh64]

Its crazy to think that Team A could be 2-13 and Team B is 11-4 with those stats despite their respective SOS. There were a couple of conclusions that I drew from this. First, is that turnovers are HUGE in the NFL. KC is 2nd in the NFL with a +17 turnover margin and have only coughed up the ball 18 times this season (4th best). Houston on the other hand has a -17 turnover margin (tied for worst margin). They have only forced 10 turnovers this season (which actually makes their yards against that much more impressive!).

The simple addition of Alex Smith not turning the ball over has turned a league-worst 2 win team from a year ago, into a double-digit win team (although their extremely easy SOS also has something to do with that).

The other conclusion that I drew from this is that the SOS is, by its very nature, misleading. Go look at the ESPN playoff standings and look at all the teams' SOS. Notice how as you go from first to worst that the SOS of each team gets harder? One could conclude (incorrectly) that the better teams are there because they had easier schedules. But by beating an opponent you are handing them a loss and lowering their winning percentage, which in turn lowers your SOS. The 2-win Texans have the toughest SOS because they keep handing opponents wins! The SOS is also misleading in that your common opponents will also play each other, a lot. This creates 1 win and 1 loss for your SOS calculation, no matter what. So when your team's SOS inches closer to .500, its simply because your opponents are playing each other and not because they are getting tougher or easier

Interesting shit. While somewhat obvious, your perspective on turnovers really supports the ole "whoever wins the turnover battle" statement. The Texans and the Chiefs had or created a ton of turnovers and it really swung those stats. In the case of KC, when teams don't turn the ball over, it exposes some of the Chiefs warts.

I try not to pay much attention to SOS. It's such a moving target and your team is always directly affecting another teams SOS.

 

[HizzleRocker]

Without cheating - total guesses:

Seattle and KC?

 

[HizzleRocker]

Ok, well I got 1/2.