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Post by groundchuck on Jan 22, 2009 8:31:46 GMT -6
In your opinion what is a realistic turnover margin for a good high school team. Since in the uppermidwest most states play 9 regular season games I will use that as an arbitrary number of games.
Of course we would like to go through a 9-game schedule without any turnovers but fumbles and interceptions happen. These are high school kids afterall. They will not be perfect all season.
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Post by sbv on Jan 22, 2009 8:34:43 GMT -6
I think a +9 is pretty realistic for a decent team. If you are +1 in each game you are covered. I like to be +2 in each game, sometimes we are sometimes we are not.
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Post by kboyd on Jan 22, 2009 9:25:25 GMT -6
I agree with sbv, +1 a game is a good margin. It's what we shoot for.
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Post by craines10 on Jan 22, 2009 9:57:59 GMT -6
My goal would be +1.
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Post by craines10 on Jan 22, 2009 9:58:23 GMT -6
That is +1 per game
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Jan 22, 2009 11:57:48 GMT -6
We have a goal of no more than one turnover a game. We can accept one, but others we consider carelessness.
We were not good RE: turnovers this past year (gave up two defensive TDs on fumble returns...plus a lot of others).
In 1997 we had 3 all season (semi-finalist...13 games. We were very weak offensively, but we almost never hurt ourselves.)
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Post by justryn2 on Jan 22, 2009 12:23:24 GMT -6
So how meaningful is this as a season stat? After all, if you are in the +/-1 per game range you're not hurting yourself; probably neutral. But +/-1 per game would extrapolate out to +/-1 per season. So, if you're +9 for the season you're doing quite well. But let's say you're +5. That might still sound pretty good but, if you had one game where you were +3, that means that you went +2 for the remaining 8 games. Still good but not anything that's likely to have had a big impact.
I guess what I'm asking is, at what point does this become a meaningful statistic for a season? I think a more important statistic, both within an individual game and for a season, might be points off turnovers. If you go -3 turnovers in a game but still come out +7 in points off turnovers, did you win or lose the turnover battle? Also, when looking at this statistic, do you include turnovers on downs?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2009 14:03:30 GMT -6
We were -6in the championship game, but ended up +12 for the season. As a Defensive guy I like we end up there.
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