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Topic: Ohio receivers' targets and catches

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Ted Thompson
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Ohio receivers' targets and catches

Posted: 10/5/2011 2:39:47 PM

Bill Connelly does great work on college football statistical analysis at FootballStudyHall.com. He published target rates and catches for all receivers through 5 games: http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2011/10/4/2468064/data-sharing-targets-and-catches-through-five-weeks

Below are the stats for Ohio receivers. These are based upon stats in the play-by-plays so I'm guessing the Leftwich stats really belong to Bates. Just for giggles, I checked out Mohamed Sanu. He's been targeted on 69 of the team's 159 targets (43.4%).

Offense	Player	Targets	Catches	Yards	CatchRate	YdsPerTarget	Team Targets	Target Rate
Ohio	LaVon Brazill	36	24	332	66.7%	9.2	157	22.9%
Ohio	Donte Foster	19	12	134	63.2%	7.1	157	12.1%
Ohio	Riley Dunlop	16	12	172	75.0%	10.8	157	10.2%
Ohio	Ryan Boykin	14	13	88	92.9%	6.3	157	8.9%
Ohio	Phil Bates	13	9	138	69.2%	10.6	157	8.3%
Ohio	Bakari Bussey	11	6	56	54.5%	5.1	157	7.0%
Ohio	Jordan Thompson	11	8	94	72.7%	8.6	157	7.0%
Ohio	Donte Harden	8	5	58	62.5%	7.3	157	5.1%
Ohio	Mario Dovell	6	3	68	50.0%	11.3	157	3.8%
Ohio	Jerry Gross	5	2	15	40.0%	3.0	157	3.2%
Ohio	Landon Smith	5	2	16	40.0%	3.2	157	3.2%
Ohio	Beau Blankenship	4	3	19	75.0%	4.8	157	2.5%
Ohio	Tyler Futrell	4	2	33	50.0%	8.3	157	2.5%
Ohio	Zac Clark	3	2	27	66.7%	9.0	157	1.9%
Ohio	Octavius Leftwich	2	1	8	50.0%	4.0	157	1.3%

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UpSan Bobcat
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RE: Ohio receivers' targets and catches

Posted: 10/5/2011 3:27:32 PM

It's pretty good how well the ball is spread around. That's a lot of guys with catches.

Sanu's numbers are incredible. He's also caught just shy of 50 percent of Rutgers' completions, so you could make a case maybe they should try to get the ball to him even more. Passes thrown to other receivers are less likely to be completed even though it's somewhat of a surprise to the defense when it's not thrown to him.

DelBobcat
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RE: Ohio receivers' targets and catches

Posted: 10/5/2011 3:52:00 PM

This is great data! Sanu has the fifth highest Target Rate in the country. Boykin's Catch Rate is 3rd highest.

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Mike Coleman
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RE: Ohio receivers' targets and catches

Posted: 10/5/2011 7:08:37 PM

My guess is O. Leftwich is really Bates.

GoCats105
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RE: Ohio receivers' targets and catches

Posted: 10/5/2011 11:15:48 PM

I like the way the ball is spread too, but as the season goes on I can see Brazill's numbers separating from the rest of the pack. Tyler likes to key on him in certain situations. Defenses are going to start recognizing that and adjust accordingly, we will have to do the same.

Personally, I would like to see Mr. Dunlop with more targets. His catch rate is second only to Boykin's. You could argue his is actually better because a lot of Boykin's are dump offs and swing passes. Dunlop is catching the ball down field in traffic, which is what we need a lot more of IMO.

OhioCatFan
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RE: Ohio receivers' targets and catches

Posted: 10/6/2011 10:28:32 AM

I think it's interesting looking at these stats that one would have a hard time figuring who are WRs and who are RBs. That flexibility and wide range of choices of targets has to keep defenses a little off guard and guessing. That's a very good thing.

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