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Caroline Edmonds's avatar

1) I love how you write your articles. It has a great flow!

2) The way you explain your graphs and have a consistent theme is very refreshing.

3) In your second graph, Yards Per Play on Offensive Snaps With and Without motion, some teams only have one dot. Was this because both motion/non-motion were the same? It was not super clear.

Chiefs fan, so I was curious to see how the Chiefs were doing in this department naturally. I think Mahomes is hiding a lot of errors in his current scheme, as evidenced by your EPA/Play graph. Do you think this is the case?

Ray Carpenter's avatar

Appreciate the kind words! Your assumption in point #3 is correct. Thinking I should’ve picked a third color when the two values equaled each other.

As for the Chiefs, you may be right. I think they were showing some cracks even last season too, but they were winning all of their one score games instead of losing them. What’s interesting is that all 4 division winners from the AFC last season currently aren’t leading their divisions in 2025 (PIT and BAL are tied). Could just be tough scheduling as well

Caroline Edmonds's avatar

Mmmmmm interesting! Even split color, but that might be too hard to look nice. Thanks for the response! I look forward to more of your work!