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