Stat Collection & New Stat for 6-Man

Leman Saunders

Leman Saunders

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If anyone wants to contribute to the statistical database I have been working on please feel free to email anything you have...I am collecting individual game stats (for team and individuals) single season stats, and career stats.

On this topic I want to suggest that coaches should start collecting a new stat that would be unique to 6-man...I think we need to start officially logging a stat for "Quarters Played" or "Minutes Played" even to log just how many Quarters/Minutes a team was on the field for a given game/season

So for example: If a game ended right at halftime it would be logged as 2 Quarters played or 20 mins played...if a game ended with 3mins left in the 3rd quarter it would be logged as 3 Quarters or 27 mins.


Thoughts????

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Thanks
 
This has nothing to do with this noble effort. Leman and others have been on this a while, is just a story from bygone days. There was a team, not six man any longer that week end and week out had tremendous stats. Local paper published them and pretty soon coaches were talking (know that is hard to believe) about it. We played them and beat them and Sunday a well known writer (who is now deceased) called me and asked me about the stats of this team. I told him what we had and he replied that they turned in several hundred yards more than what we showed. I told him thought ours were pretty right and his answer was that we obviously were not counting the yards gained while the other team warmed up before the game. I still chuckle over that. Hope everyone has a Happy New Year. Just saying.
 
It may also be worth mentioning stats reported to news outlets after a game may be unreliable depending on who records the stats during the game. I can recall several occasions when I had students keeping stats for me and I would call them in to the paper and they would be off by a large margin due to the fact that that a play for negative 6 yards rushing was just recorded as six yards... this adds up during the course of a game and can only be corrected after watching film.
 
I saw some stats from the 1980s that were being turned in weekly for a publication that was distributed to all the coaches and I am pretty sure two coaches got into a stats war against each other in the "tackles" category...because every week these two schools would turn in ungodly numbers for their leading tackler...like over 30 tackles in a game...pretty sure they were padding their stats to try to say their kid was the "leading tackler"...or at least one was and the other coach didnt care and was trying to make a point of it by turning in crazy stats as well to test the other one...who knows!
 
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