Week 4We always hear about winning the turnover battle, but a we saw last week it's pretty meaningless when you force a fumble and then go three and out in the very next drive without scoring. I think what is more important is how many points per turnover a team can generate (or lose). To this end, I have added a new stat, afterTO, which is the net points scored immediately after a turnover per opportunity. So if your defense generates a lot of turnovers, but and your offense can successfully convert them into points AND your offense doesn't create turnovers that lead to opposition points you will have a large positive number. If your offense gives up turnovers that your opponent then turns into points AND your offense can't take advantage of turnovers it will be negative. If you give up about as many point off of turnovers as you get then it will be about 0. This stat kind of measures how well a team can take advantage of an opportunity, balanced against how well they can recover from a mistake.
For every turnover in a game with Alabama they net about 3.83 points. For South Carolina they lose about a point for every turnover.
As of now, afterTO does not factor into the final ChUPAR ranking.
KSU offense is anemic, but really not THAT different from last year (we ended up at 1.65 ppd):
2017 vs 2018 (raw)
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