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Old 11-29-2006, 02:48 AM
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I haven't heard about that. What does it involve?

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It basically breaks down each play and tracks who covers who, who misses/makes tackles, yards after contact, yards after the catch, etc. I'm not sure if they do it by hand watching the film or what. But it tracks a ton of stuff that is missed in the normal play-by-play.

A lot of interesting things come out of it. For example, most teams don't use their #1 corner on the #1 WR. There are exceptions (Detroit's Dre Bly covers the #1 almost every play), but for the most part the offense tries to get a favorable matchup for their #1 and the defense doesn't really respond to that by shifting.
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