Thursday, December 07, 2006

How Much Time Did Your Conference Lose?

Marty of cfbstats is simply the best in the business. No one compares. Check out what he has for us this week: A breakdown of the average minutes lost per game for each of the Division I-A conferences. As you can see, Mountain West games were impacted most by rule 3-2-5-e, with conference games reduced by an average of 26:06 minutes. On the other end, Sun Belt games lost an average of only 4:18. Why the big difference? Frankly, we're not sure, and neither is Marty, who sends along this note: "I wish I had an explanation at this point. ... All 36 Mountain West games in 2005 were over 3 hours, and this season 17 of 36 were below 3 hours."

Two other notes about the numbers:
Conference games only, including conference championship games.
There are only 48 games for the Mid-American in 2005 because of the missing Toledo-Ball State game of 10/15/05.
The Pacific 10 added another conference game when the 12-game schedule was introduced, thus the increase of five in total number of league games in 2006.

Conference..............2005.....................2006
.......................G.....Time..........G.......Time....Min. Lost
Mountain West.....36.....3:28:18......36......3:02:12.....26:06
Pacific 10...........40.....3:28:54......45......3:10:12.....18:42
Western Athletic...36.....3:20:48......36......3:04:18.....16:30
Big 12...............49.....3:28:54......49......3:13:06.....15:48
Atlantic Coast......49.....3:27:06......49......3:11:54.....15:12
Mid-American.......48.....3:16:36*.....49......3:02:42.....13:54
Big Ten..............44.....3:18:42......44......3:06:54.....11:48
Conference USA.....49.....3:17:12.....49......3:07:00.....10:12
Big East..............28.....3:24:30......28......3:16:00......8:30
Southeastern........49.....3:19:12......49......3:12:36......6:36
Sun Belt..............28.....3:08:54......28......3:04:36......4:18
* missing game duration of Toledo-Ball State 10/15/2005

Overall statistics for time lost in all Division I-A games:

Overall...G.......Plays.......Plays/G....Min.........Min/G......Time/G 2005......690....116181.....168.38.....138025*....200.37.....3:20:22 2006......760....115855.....152.44.....141780.....186.55.....3:06.33
* missing game duration of Toledo-Ball State 10/15/2005

Decrease in scoring from 2005 to 2006:

Year......G........Points.....Pts/G
2005......690.....36185.....52.44
2006......760.....36001.....47.37

Year.......G.....1H Pts....1H Pts/G...2H Pts....2H Pts/G...OT 2005......690...18312.....26.54......17453.....25.29.......420 2006......760...18804.....24.74......16776.....22.07.......421

Here are the shortest games from Week 14

Colorado State-San Diego State: 2:43
Air Force-Texas Christian: 2:54
Central Michigan-Ohio: 2:55
Louisiana Tech-New Mexico State: 3:00
Fresno State-San Jose State: 3:05

Here are the longest games from Week 14:

Rutgers-West Virginia: 3:52
Nebraska-Oklahoma: 3:40
Arkansas-Florida: 337
Troy-Florida International: 3:23
Wake Forest-Georgia Tech: 3:20

2 comments:

insomniac said...

Great stuff.

Horrible new timing rules. Hopefully, they will be eliminated next season. At least in the last 5 mins of the 4th qtr.

Anonymous said...

Could lack of TV coverage impacted the lost time in the Mountain West and WAC? Just a shot in the dark, although the Pac-10 is pretty well covered by TV and it's second on the list.