Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Fifteen Minutes and 16 Plays

Marty of cfbstats has the latest update regarding how rule 3-2-5-e has impacted the time of games and reduced the number of plays. About 15 minutes have been trimmed from the average game this season compared to 2005, and there are about 16 less plays a game. Here are the numbers:

Overall...G........Plays......Plays/G....Min.......Min/G......Time/G
2005......280.....47089.....168.18.....56267.....200.95.....3:20:57
2006......312.....47491.....152.21.....57976.....185.82.....3:05.49

Here are the shortest games from Week 5:
Bowling Green-Ohio: 2:37
San Houston State-Texas: 2:38
Troy-Alabama Birmingham: 2:39
Miami (Ohio)-Cincinnati: 2:48
Middle Tennessee State-North Texas: 2:50
San Diego State-San Jose State: 2:50
Florida Atlantic-Louisiana Monroe: 2:50
Nevada-Nevada Las Vegas: 2:50

Here are the longest games from Week 5:
Northern Illinois-Ball State: 4:00
Kansas-Nebraska: 3:52
Mississippi State-Louisiana State: 3:42
Wyoming-Syracuse: 3:39
Alabama-Florida: 3:33

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And how does this translate into scoring/G?

Anonymous said...

That's a great question. Some more analysis is definately need here. Perhaps compare scores between similar opponents from last year's games versus this year's match-ups or do the same thing but include ATS comparisons and which games made "the over/under bets"