[BostonCard]

With the TyCat™, I wonder how much those numbers are skewed by the bad snap?  And I guess you can argue that you take the good with the bad and that a bad snap is a risk you take with the wildcat formation.  However, because we are dealing with very few snaps (5 total wildcat snaps), one bad one will skew the average.  If you look at the 4 non-fumbled wildcat runs, I think you see Montgomery has 17 yards, or 4.25 yards per carry.  That's not quite as good as our running backs (who are all averaging above 5 yards per carry), but it hardly makes the case that the wildcat is a horrible play.

I'd love to see the overall stats for the wildcat.  If 5.5 yards per carry is correct, that is better than our average rushing total, and it suggests that bias against the play is due to the belief that it shouldn't work, rather than that it doesn't work.  I've not seen the breakdown by play, so I can't comment.

BC

[BostonCard]

With the TyCat™, I wonder how much those numbers are skewed by the bad snap?  And I guess you can argue that you take the good with the bad and that a bad snap is a risk you take with the wildcat formation.  However, because we are dealing with very few snaps (5 total wildcat snaps), one bad one will skew the average.  If you look at the 4 non-fumbled wildcat runs, I think you see Montgomery has 17 yards, or 4.25 yards per carry.  That's not quite as good as our running backs (who are all averaging above 5 yards per carry), but it hardly makes the case that the wildcat is a horrible play.

I'd love to see the overall stats for the wildcat.  If 5.5 yards per carry is correct, that is better than our average rushing total, and it suggests that bias against the play is due to the belief that it shouldn't work, rather than that it doesn't work.  I've not seen the breakdown by play, so I can't comment.

BC