Interesting chart on NU’s streakiness

NUCat320

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NU is upper left, which is not where you want to be. It means NU has very few big offensive runs, and allows many.



Maybe a negative indicator. Who knows? The lower right teams are objectively good ones.
 
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Baz=Heisman

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Only a 1/2 season sample so far and I wonder how that Chicago State game really jacked these numbers…
 

AdamOnFirst

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On one hand, these clusters clearly at least somewhat correlate with team quality and play style just looking at it visually. And it appears NU is looking at having allowed 8 10-0 scoring runs while having zero of their own. That’s pretty bad.

On the other hand, specifically 10-0 is pretty narrowly defined. I recall against PSU we had something like a 15-2. That’s massive, but doesn’t hit this metric. I wonder if it would change materially for NU of you included like 12+ to 2 up to like 16 to 4 type runs in there.
 

Jonny2TheP

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On one hand, these clusters clearly at least somewhat correlate with team quality and play style just looking at it visually. And it appears NU is looking at having allowed 8 10-0 scoring runs while having zero of their own. That’s pretty bad.

On the other hand, specifically 10-0 is pretty narrowly defined. I recall against PSU we had something like a 15-2. That’s massive, but doesn’t hit this metric. I wonder if it would change materially for NU of you included like 12+ to 2 up to like 16 to 4 type runs in there.
Agreed. I think a better metric would be something like “outscored opponent by 10 or more points in a 4 minute stretch”. Or something in that realm. As you stated, not all big runs involve the opponent getting zero points during that time.