re: SEC Returning Offensive Production per stat area (per The Athletic)

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it's been explained. perhaps you're having trouble understanding it as well. lsu is not going to be "inexperienced" on offense in 2020. not even close, except for te if gilbert starts. lsu returns experienced production at basically every position. highly recruited players who have played significant minutes and performed well. even *GASP* brennan has looked really good

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You clearly don't understand what this article was about. I will try to explain.

The Athletic tracked every play from the 2019-2020 season. Turned those into stats. Every snap, pass, run,and every play. So just for example, 94% of the passes for LSU were thrown by Burrow. He is not Returning for the 2020-2021 season. 6% of the passes were thrown by Brennan. He is Returning for the 2020-2021 season. So LSU's Returning Offensive Passing Stat for the 2020-2021 season would be 6%. That does not mean LSU is going to only throw the ball 6% of the time or that Brennan is only going to complete 6% of his passes. It's just a stat of what you have returning.

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2019 Game Averages - Starts Offensive Line (returners)
1.1 average starts per game (5 OL starters)

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This is a little misleading. LT has started 2 games at least. LG started every game I believe in 2018. C has started a a few as well between 2018 and 2019. RG will probably be a redshirt freshman and RT has started a bunch of games. We also have a grad transfer that has started 30 games even though it was at Harvard.

Not saying that it's a ton of experience, but there seems to be more there than what that stat is letting on.

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Yeah baw get em stats are dumb

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This is a little misleading. LT has started 2 games at least. LG started every game I believe in 2018. C has started a a few as well between 2018 and 2019. RG will probably be a redshirt freshman and RT has started a bunch of games. We also have a grad transfer that has started 30 games even though it was at Harvard

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this is at least the 2nd time it's been explained to george. just want to bump this for his reading convenience.

the rb's have carries and any person with a brain can see they are seriously talented.

the wr's are all world and the roster is deep

lsu returns senior pettigrew at te. played 13 games as a rs fr but has been hurt since. however, he might get beat out by gilbert.

even brennan is a multi year player in the program. made some really great throws last season, regardless of what point he played. if you watch him play, you can tell he's capable of being very good.

there. that's the entire offense. there's no obvious weak link. the roster is stacked at every position. pretty much every player has significant game experience. to say lsu returns basically no production is just stupid.

the vast majority of the stat in the op is burrow but it's not like brennan won't produce any stats of his own so the op is very, very misleading. even if brennan is 75% as good as burrow's historically great season, that will still be among the best in the nation, especially given the weapons around him. he has a TON of playmakers and a solid, experienced oline. oc returns. proven nfl passing game coordinator.

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the vast majority of the stat in the op is burrow but it's not like brennan won't produce any stats of his own so the op is very, very misleading

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It's only misleading to people who want to be misled. Nobody with a brain looks at those stats and thinks "Wow, Vanderbilt is going to have 0 passing yards this year."

If you fail the basic understand of how to read "returning production" type stats and how they are used then just avoid the thread.

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multiple people have explained how the op is misleading regarding lsu

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THESE ARE LITERALLY STATS FROM THE ATHLETIC AND ESPN

Good grief man. And Alabama could argue that these Defensive Production stats are unfair to them as they do not include Dylan Moses' starts and production from prior years, nor do they account for the missed starts by half the defensive line last year. But so could about 3/4 of the league for different reasons.

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lsu is returning a "green" player. not one except for perhaps one oline position and possibly te

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You realize that almost every other school in the SEC could make similar claims about their replacements, right? Do you think that every SEC replacement for a departed starters is a true freshman who is just walking onto campus?

Again, you seem to have different expectations of what this stat is supposed to represent. Under your method, returning "production" (or whatever you would call it) would basically be 100% for every school in the SEC.

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Your espn FPI element breakdown is kindygarden crap Baw

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Look, clearly our definition of experience is different.

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yeah, yours is in agreement with the op, which is stupid. sure, in a very narrow statistical way, it's true. but any reasonable, sane person knows lsu isn't going to trot out the equivalent of 6% of last year's passing offense. that's just dumb

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Yours is "they were on the field some".

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You also seem to be adding in these "you can tell they are good" arguments, which has absolutely zero to do with this discussion.

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you don't even understand the discussion. it's about production and lsu's players have proven they are productive. instead of wasting everyone's time, all you have to do is watch the games to understand. everyone gets the op stat. the discussion is why it's pretty much meaningless regarding lsu

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LSU's offensive experience is less than almost everyone else in the SEC. That isn't really up for debate, and I'd assume even you wouldn't argue that point?

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again, if you actually believe this, then you're just not very bright. you're looking at the stats at a very surface level, very narrow view.

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It's only misleading to people who want to be misled. Nobody with a brain looks at those stats and thinks "Wow, Vanderbilt is going to have 0 passing yards this year."

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i have explained lsu's returning offensive players and positions to you. i couldn't care less about the stat in the op and i understand it perfectly well. the whole point is how misleading it is. if you think it actually means something in real life, you're just not smart because, on the surface, it suggests that lsu is going to be near last in the conference in offense. you acknowledge that point but then keep arguing that lsu isn't returning any production. no one cares because any person with half a brain can see that stat needs A LOT of context.