"Fewest Yards Penalized Per Game"

tracker

I wanted to look at the issue of whether Sark's teams really do "lack discipline" as is
often stated on various boards, etc. I looked at two sources for stats and starting with the
last two years of TW and then Sark it would appear there is an undeniable trend toward
increased penalties. I understand this is just one problem area and that someone else can
take these figures much further than I'm interested in doing myself. Have at it!

Washington's ranking for "Teams with Fewest Penalty Yards per Game". . .

According to the NCAA website and cfbstats.com out of 120+ D-1 teams Washington has ranked:

TW:

2007---29th
2008---17th

Sark:

2009---87th
2010---80th
2011---89th
2012---100th
2013---123rd (to date)

http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/leader/national/team/offense/split01/category14/sort01.html
http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/natlRank.jsp?year=2011&div=IA&rpt=IA_teamyardspenalized&site=org&div=IA&dest=O

This is not good.

loadsock

tracker said:

I wanted to look at the issue of whether Sark's teams really do "lack discipline" as is
often stated on various boards, etc. I looked at two sources for stats and starting with the
last two years of TW and then Sark it would appear there is an undeniable trend toward
increased penalties. I understand this is just one problem area and that someone else can
take these figures much further than I'm interested in doing myself. Have at it!

Washington's ranking for "Teams with Fewest Penalty Yards per Game". . .

According to the NCAA website and cfbstats.com out of 120+ D-1 teams Washington has ranked:

TW:

2007---29th
2008---17th

Sark:

2009---87th
2010---80th
2011---89th
2012---100th
2013---123rd (to date)

http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/leader/national/team/offense/split01/category14/sort01.html
http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/natlRank.jsp?year=2011&div=IA&rpt=IA_teamyardspenalized&site=org&div=IA&dest=O

This is not good.

Excuse: "But, but, but it just means that Sark's teams are getting more aggressive!"
Excuse: "Now we know why we are losing so much! The refs are screwing us!"
Excuse: "We're still young."
Excuse: "But that's pretty impressive to be ranked 123rd and still have 6 wins!"

There's a start. Carry on.

BiggusDickus

No way dude... Fetters sez that the penalties have been fixed and that the UCLA game was just an aberration.

http://i.imgur.com/Fap2ALo.png