Thursday, September 21, 2006

Number of Plays in a Game Down by 15

Marty from the site cfbstats is back with his statistical wizardry. He is helping us track the impact of rule 3-2-5-e, which is designed to reduce the time of games. The problem is, it's also reducing the number of plays, and anything that results in less college football is not a good thing. Especially when more and more commercials are interrupting play. Again, if you use any of this information, please give credit to cfbstats. It's a terrific site and if you want to see how your team is doing from a statistical standpoint, it's the only place to go.

Overall...G........Plays......Plays/G....Min.......Min/G......Time/G
2005......178.....29736.....167.05.....35593.....199.96.....3:19:58
2006......199.....30261.....152.06.....36988.....185.86.....3:05.52

Here are the five shortest games from Week 3:
Colorado State-Nevada: 2:25
Buffalo-Northern Illinois: 2:34
Western Michigan-Virginia: 2:40
Eastern Michigan-Northwestern: 2:42
North Texas-Tulsa: 2:43

Here are the five longest games from Week 3:
Kansas-Toledo: 4:00
Oklahoma-Oregon: 3:54
Brigham Young-Boston College: 3:50
Michigan-Notre Dame: 3:28
Furman-North Carolina: 3:27

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The length of the Michigan vs. Notre Dame game is off because NBC took four five0minute commercial breaks per quarter. So basically we exchanged football playing time for commercials.

"Carr said he was informed that there would be four five-minute commercial breaks per quarter." http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/aanews/football/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/115867695893830.xml&coll=2