(01-04-2020, 04:24 AM)Eric1 Wrote:

(01-04-2020, 01:28 AM)p_rushing Wrote: You need to look at the stats. It's too complicated to do it on mobile to post each game, but take away his longest carry of each game and his stats look terrible.

He would be at 726 yards for 2.9 ypc. That is a bust. I would rather have a back who picks up yards on every carry, not one who picks up most of his yards on 1 or 2 carries.

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What a terrible way to look at it...

I'm not really a fan of Fournette at all, but you could look at every RB in the league and take away their longest carry of each game and all of their numbers are going to drop...

It's not terrible, he's just clearly not a statistician able to explain what he's talking about. If you want to get an idea of his consistency you can do things like removing outlier runs and calculating a few things. Ideally you'd want your running back to be consistent in getting good yardage on each run, something like 4, 5, 4, 5, 3, 5, 6 for a 4.5 yard average. Not something like 12, -3, 1, 6, 15, -4 for 4.5 average. The first one helps you get to field goal range, the second one gets you a couple of punts.

The below article touches on the unimportance of a strong running game in the modern NFL, and essentially what a stupid draft selection Fournette was.
https://thepowerrank.com/2014/01/10/whic...-playoffs/

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