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Home Griz vs Road Griz

BWahlberg

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Interesting comparison, something I was hoping to look at before the cat game. Here's what I've got - even one chart!



Silver bar represents what the road Griz have amassed and allowed, while the maroon is what they've done at home. Here's the numbers

Griz on the road allow 230 passing and 178 rushing for a total of 408 yards per game. Griz at home though are allowing 116 rushing and 223 passing which is a total of 339 yards per game. That's a difference of almost 70 yards per game on average better at home!

As for the offense the numbers are different, many times the Griz on the road are behind and need to pass more where at home they have a lead and are running more. The Griz are rushing for 228 and passing for 176 per game, when on the road they're rushing for 104 and passing for 260. That's a total at home of 403 yards per game compared to 364 per game - that's a difference of just about 40 yards better at home.

Scoring wise, a real big swing here;

Griz on the road are averaging 20.3 points per game and averaging allowing 24.7 points per game.

Griz at home are averaging 37.4 points per game while allowing an average of 17.4 points per game.

Turnovers;

Griz have forced 8 turnovers on the road and committed 4. So they're +4

Griz have forced 8 turnovers at home (in 1 less game) and committed just 2. At home they're +6

Time of possession average isn't much different, about 27.1 minutes average on the road while 28.2 at home.

Obviously we're well aware of the Grizzlies record, 5-0 at home and 2-4 on the road.

All-in-all an interesting look, the "home Griz" is what we need to see against the cats this weekend. One thing to certainly point out, on the road the Griz played and lost to NDSU, EWU, CPSLO, and Wyoming. 3 of the 4 who are teams with winning records, are/were ranked, and the other an FBS school. When you flip it and look at the home schedule you see only one team with a winning record, Sac State that's currently 6-5, a division 2 team and the other teams who have won 2, 3, 4 and 2 games respectively.
 
The last paragraph is really all you can glean from this. If you'd have EWOO or Poly at home, that might give a significant data point. As it is, the total average is where I'd look. MSU's road averages skew the stats too because of that 77 point game.
 
The stats are interesting, but it's more "who" the Griz have played. We've played legit teams and got beat on road (except SUU) and crap teams at home and have won.
 
BWahlberg said:
Interesting comparison, something I was hoping to look at before the cat game. Here's what I've got - even one chart!



Silver bar represents what the road Griz have amassed and allowed, while the maroon is what they've done at home. Here's the numbers

Griz on the road allow 230 passing and 178 rushing for a total of 408 yards per game. Griz at home though are allowing 116 rushing and 223 passing which is a total of 339 yards per game. That's a difference of almost 70 yards per game on average better at home!

As for the offense the numbers are different, many times the Griz on the road are behind and need to pass more where at home they have a lead and are running more. The Griz are rushing for 228 and passing for 176 per game, when on the road they're rushing for 104 and passing for 260. That's a total at home of 403 yards per game compared to 364 per game - that's a difference of just about 40 yards better at home.

Scoring wise, a real big swing here;

Griz on the road are averaging 20.3 points per game and averaging allowing 24.7 points per game.

Griz at home are averaging 37.4 points per game while allowing an average of 17.4 points per game.

Turnovers;

Griz have forced 8 turnovers on the road and committed 4. So they're +4

Griz have forced 8 turnovers at home (in 1 less game) and committed just 2. At home they're +6

Time of possession average isn't much different, about 27.1 minutes average on the road while 28.2 at home.

Obviously we're well aware of the Grizzlies record, 5-0 at home and 2-4 on the road.

All-in-all an interesting look, the "home Griz" is what we need to see against the cats this weekend. One thing to certainly point out, on the road the Griz played and lost to NDSU, EWU, CPSLO, and Wyoming. 3 of the 4 who are teams with winning records, are/were ranked, and the other an FBS school. When you flip it and look at the home schedule you see only one team with a winning record, Sac State that's currently 6-5, a division 2 team and the other teams who have won 2, 3, 4 and 2 games respectively.
While we do historically play really well at home, those stats are very misleading this year. We have played a bunch of garbage teams at home and played really tough games on the road all season. It really skews the stats. This game will be the best test of the Griz team because they are finally facing a good team at home.
 
BWahlberg said:
One thing to certainly point out, on the road the Griz played and lost to NDSU, EWU, CPSLO, and Wyoming. 3 of the 4 who are teams with winning records, are/were ranked, and the other an FBS school. When you flip it and look at the home schedule you see only one team with a winning record, Sac State that's currently 6-5, a division 2 team and the other teams who have won 2, 3, 4 and 2 games respectively.

That is all you needed to say. The rest of the stats are irrelevant.
 
Yes quality of road vs home teams played is the overwhelming main factor. However there's a few exceptions that stand out.

At SUU and at UND. Two bad teams that the "road Griz" struggled against almost as if they were good/better teams. We saw the same issues on offense for the most part with exception to the late 3rd and 4th qtr of the SUU game.

Vs Sac. At home the Griz faced a team with a winning record that has a QB who is near tops in average total yards. Sac was probably a poorly covered kick return away from beating MSU just a week before playing the Griz. At home the Griz soundly beat The Hornets.
 
BWahlberg said:
Yes quality of road vs home teams played is the overwhelming main factor. However there's a few exceptions that stand out.

At SUU and at UND. Two bad teams that the "road Griz" struggled against almost as if they were good/better teams. We saw the same issues on offense for the most part with exception to the late 3rd and 4th qtr of the SUU game.

Vs Sac. At home the Griz faced a team with a winning record that has a QB who is near tops in average total yards. Sac was probably a poorly covered kick return away from beating MSU just a week before playing the Griz. At home the Griz soundly beat The Hornets.

If our schedule was reversed we'd be 8-2 right now. 8-)
 
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