Articles Archive for Andrew Crafton
Miscellany, Off-Season, Staff, Statistics »
![A Theory on College Football Performance: Part 3 – Game Day Performance](http://www.clashmoremike.com/wp-content/themes/tipperaryterrence/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://clashmoremike.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kelly_sideline.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1&q=100)
Part 3 of this series of articles will cover the effects that performance in close games and game day management, preparation, and execution have on a program, and how these areas have affected Notre Dame. Part 2 focused on scheduling and the benefit that playing home games while Part 1 focused on recruiting and player […]
Miscellany, Off-Season, Statistics, University »
![A Theory on College Football Performance: Part 2 – Institutional Factors](http://www.clashmoremike.com/wp-content/themes/tipperaryterrence/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://clashmoremike.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/swarbrick_kelly.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1&q=100)
Part 2 of this series of articles will cover the effects of scheduling and the benefit that playing home games have on a program, and how these areas have affected Notre Dame. While Part 1 focused on the player impact on a program, recruiting and development—something the coach and his staff have greater control over—this […]
Miscellany, Off-Season, Personnel, Recruiting, Statistics »
![A Theory on College Football Performance: Part 1 – The Players](http://www.clashmoremike.com/wp-content/themes/tipperaryterrence/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://clashmoremike.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kelly_practice.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1&q=100)
I originally came up with the idea of creating “five-year profiles” because I wanted to evaluate the entire Charlie Weis period at Notre Dame on a scale relative to the rest of college football. The thought was that if we could create a snapshot of what the last five seasons (2005-2009) looked like at ND […]
Off-Season, Staff, Statistics »
![Clutch or Luck? Brian Kelly’s Performance the Past Five Seasons](http://www.clashmoremike.com/wp-content/themes/tipperaryterrence/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://clashmoremike.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/brian-kelly.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1&q=100)
The Pythagorean expectation—brought into the sports vernacular by baseball statistician Bill James—in its most simplest form is a tool used to describe how “lucky” a baseball team was in a given season. By comparing runs scored versus runs allowed, James was able to derive a relationship between winning and scoring margin, and thus could show […]