Tuesday Play Count Tracking: A Very Weird Sample Size To Start

Not a lot of even competition, so we will see how this goes going forward with new rules

Update: TTU was OT not delayed, and I think we have to figure out how to handle OT in this entire system. Thanks to Paul for pointing that out!

So, here’s where we are:

Everyone except New Mexico ran fewer plays in Week One than they averaged a season ago. However, there are a few things to consider.

-Michigan and Miami played money games where they were on the plus side of the money. Get the win and get it quickly. So we have to see what this season looks like beyond those games. Oh, and I am going back to watch JJ McCarthy to check the air yards for him.

-New Mexico played a road money game and so Texas A&M was in the Michigan/Miami role trying to get it over and go home.

-Texas Tech had a game delayed against Wyoming. Not delayed, overtime, thanks to Paul for pointing that out. The darling of the Big 12 entering the season won, which TCU and Baylor can’t say, but did not look like they were prepared to set the world on fire. 80 plays against a Wyoming team that wants to go as slow as possible, compared to 84 as an average is pretty square…but it took OT to get there

-Army and Western Kentucky being 1 play off is negligible, to me. 63 vs 62 or 74 vs 73, respectively feels pretty much like it is the same.

A change I think I am going to make, because I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, is converting it all to minutes, instead of hours and minutes. It is so hard to do time math when you have to do both. That’s just a fact. So here is the chart in minutes instead of hours and I can go back and forth way easier in terms of using a calculator:

Easier to divide by 60 to get hours if I do it off minutes. Please don’t try to tell me a different way, it will be like HITD Podcast where they try to make me get a mousepad.

There’s no real way to tell, so far, but this, sent to me by my producer who knows I’m trying to track is good:

So, let’s follow 7 teams and figure out if the rules work and, as the Reddit hits on, the ads staying the same keep stretching the games. If you’re not a HITD listener, the way we arrived at these teams are Army, New Mexico two of the bottom plays per game. WKU, Texas Tech two of the top plays per game. LSU, Miami and Michigan in the middle and to varying degrees, contenders in their leagues.

Next week I am going to go back and figure out the average game times for each of these teams so I can compare it week to week with the new rules. Once we are out of money games, equal comp and high pressure situations are going to be the part that probably matters most.

Let’s go!!

Cheers!!