Archive for Analysis
Turf Wars Part II: Bears Slowfooted on Grass
Hydrotech pointed out on my first post on turf performance that looking solely at turf versus grass because we have six games at home on turf, and it’s easier to win at home than on the road. Upon further review, I completely agree. I’m guessing a Cal victory achieved at Memorial Stadium is significantly less […]
Turf Wars: How Much Does the Surface Affect Cal?
I conclude this week by talking about grass. No, I’m not talking about the bums on Telegraph, although that would make for great interviewing. Is there something in the grass fields of college football stadiums that slows our players down and eventually knocks our team out? I bring this up because Cal football is a […]
Tha1 Plays Decoy (Robert Jordan TD versus TN)
This weekend I went about twelve rounds with Hydrotech from the California Golden Blogs over my playcalling posts (Part I & Part II of his ripostes are here). We both had errors in our logic (I think I said USC was in a 5-2 when it was clearly a 4-2 on the Forsett TD, he […]
Which Conference Proved They Were the Strongest?
Who’s the best conference? This seems to be part of a minimal but growing debate–and by debate I mean chest-thumping–about the Pac-10 (usually USC fans angry at how indifferent southern college football fans are to recent Trojan dominance) and the SEC (indifferent to West Coast bluster, every year). The heat has been rising summer after […]
Repetition Is Bad (3rd and Goal vs USC)
(It wasn’t planned for me to diagram gamefilm about Montgomery the day after he decided to transfer. So consider this summary an unintentional coincidence.) Now, some of you might think that I was too complimentary toward Tedford in this week’s earlier gamefilm summary. Well, for every good call, there is a bad call, and there […]
Doing What You Least Expect (Forsett’s TD vs. USC)
Tedford didn’t have too many great moments of playcalling this year (that crazy sheet he held during every game looked like it held the nuclear missile codes)–he had to do to much. But one thing that didn’t really lose substantiality was the art of misdirection (Apologies for the quality of these images, these are from […]
Cal Football 2007 In Numbers: 4th Down
4th Down Offense T6 ASU 13/19 T14 Oregon St. 9/14 T30 USC 10/17 76 Cal 5/10 T81 Stanford 8/18 T81 Washington 8/18 T87 Oregon 6/14 112 UCLA 4/13 114 Wazzu 7/24 116 Arizona 5/19 4th Down Defense T-7 Stanford 5/17 UCLA 5/17 T-9 Oregon St. 6/20 T-21 ASU 6/16 T-40 Oregon 9/21 T-43 USC 7/16 […]
Cal Football 2007 in Numbers: Turnovers III
So to summarize the last two posts, let’s take a look at the table displaying the output off of turnovers. Cal turnovers stand for the number of times we forced a turnover, POT is points off turnovers. [TABLE=14] The symmetry is obvious: Cal forced eleven more turnovers than its opponents in its first five games–the […]
Cal Football 2007 in Numbers: Turnovers II
Continuing from Part I earlier, we begin delving into the ugly. I’ll go through the painful truths of how badly turnovers impacted our club both on the offensive and defensive sides of the field. (When I put the team name next to the turnover, it is the team that ended up with the turnover, not […]
Cal Football 2007 in Numbers: Turnovers I
There was one very interesting point about Cal’s collapse that I noticed. Turnovers. Obviously the Bears’s rise to #2 in the rankings had a lot to do with holding onto the ball and capitalizing on the mistakes of the opposition–Cal had one of the highest turnover differential margins in the country after their 5-0 start, […]
