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[carolinarolls]

I have never seen this stat before. Kinda neat and what most were thinking I hope.

KC Joyner just passed along a copy of "The Football Scientist Fantasy Football Draft Guide" for 2011. You can order the book here, but let’s give you a few highlights from around the NFC South.

On Carolina, Joyner wrote: “The Panthers had something of an odd mixture of run blocking statistics. Their running backs fared quite well in the good blocking yards per attempt (GBYPA) category. This metric gauges how productive a running back is when he is given a good blocking situation (loosely defined as when the blockers do not allow the defense to do anything to disrupt a running play). Carolina’s ball carriers had this type of situation on 176 rushing attempts last year and gained 1,410 yards on those plays for a GBYPA of 8.0 (2nd best in the league).

“Now look at the flip side. The Panthers had a poor blocking situation (loosely defined as when the blockers allow the defense to do something to disrupt the play) on 222 of their rushing attempts. That means they posted a win block situation on only 40.8 percent of their rushing attempts, a total that was the 3rd lowest in that category. What this means is that for all of the talk about what Cam Newton will bring to this offense, if the Panthers can find a way to improve their run blocking, it might do as much as help turn things around as anything else they do on offense.’’

Agreed, but I also think the threat of Newton as a passer and a runner is going to make life easier for the running backs.

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[HoFBound90]

When we block well we rush well, and when we let thedefense into the back field we don't? I know stats are needed but sometimes its common sense.

Lets just hope we block well then.

[DJ Insicion]

This is why scientist never played football because its not needed here. Ridiculous

[KARASMATIC444]

When we block well we rush well, and when we let thedefense into the back field we don't? I know stats are needed but sometimes its common sense.

Lets just hope we block well then.

lol

[carolinarolls]

the interesting part geniuses is that we did not block very well

[Donald LaFell]

I think a lot of that is due to stewart playing more as he is pretty easy to bring down if you can get him moving sideways or get him in the backfield. Williams is really the only back of choice when the line is not playing well.

[LinvilleGorge]

As a statistic, that is worthless. Way too subjective.

[carolinarolls]

I think a lot of that is due to stewart playing more as he is pretty easy to bring down if you can get him moving sideways or get him in the backfield. Williams is really the only back of choice when the line is not playing well.

That is a good point. I always felt like the line was struggling. It was nice to see that @60 or percent of the time they failed to block their assignment. Another contributing factor was opponents being able to key on the run as we did not really have a passing threat for most of the season.

[Planiversal]

I think a lot of that is due to stewart playing more as he is pretty easy to bring down if you can get him moving sideways or get him in the backfield. Williams is really the only back of choice when the line is not playing well.

or, its just incredibly easy to get in the backfield when there is no fear of a passing game and you have 8/9 people in the box.

blocking could've been better, sure - but if we had any passing threat last year, those percentiles would flip between good and bad blocking situations.

[Raleighcat83]

I assume it's a lot easier for the defense to "do something to disrupt the running play" when they're not even a little bit concerned about the opposing passing game. That might be why they disrupted our running plays so often.

[CRA]

the means to improve the run blocking is the man catching 2nd most crap outside Clausen. The man-child Otah. Otah can sit all preseason for all I care....I just want him ready to roll week 1.

[Donald LaFell]

or, its just incredibly easy to get in the backfield when there is no fear of a passing game and you have 8/9 people in the box.

blocking could've been better, sure - but if we had any passing threat last year, those percentiles would flip between good and bad blocking situations.

My comment isn't really dependent on the other variables. Stewart's style of running doesn't change no matter what. He certainly will be more effective if the passing game plays well and otah is back.

[Chaos]

In other words, take an obvious fact and use that to back your way into any stat you want.

[mj4life]

or, its just incredibly easy to get in the backfield when there is no fear of a passing game and you have 8/9 people in the box.

blocking could've been better, sure - but if we had any passing threat last year, those percentiles would flip between good and bad blocking situations.

not to mention that our plays were so predictable in the first place