re: Alabama’s 2016 starting Defense in the NFL Draft

Not only do have no grasp of statistics whatsoever, but your logic is atrocious and you lack common sense.


Stats
I Z-tested the odds of a team with penalty rate. Based on all the games since 2000 the odds of any team running 99 plays without a penalty on offense. This gave me a p-value of .00008995.

In short you could expect a team to go 99 plays on offense without a penalty, once every 111,168 games. That is the equivalent of every game played in college football since 1897.


Logic

Suppose you 19-1 Stat is true. It's not but I am willing to humor you. 99 plays would be the upward bound of the number of plays since no team ran more in 2016. I would expect teams who ran less plays to have even less chance of having a penalty. So for all the teams with a penalty rate the same as Clemson or less I would expect the same results.

Yet Clemson is the only non service academy team to not be penalized on offense in 2016. What makes your position so absurd is that Clemson could not make it through a whole game against defensive titans Wake Forest, Syracuse, and Pitt without a single holding penalty being called. But they could go 99 snaps against the best defense in college football in years without a holding penalty?

Common Sense

If Alabama were to run 99 plays against Auburn without an offensive penalty the first words out your mouth would be "refs", then "SEC offices in Birmingham", then "goats".