*Defensive Standouts Through 5 Games

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Love this analysis.

It's funny how the YKW defence groups are rated so low compared to the other elite teams (Table 3) but the defence as a whole, the Wraiths are number one in the league for points against, yards allowed, and rush defence.

Yeah that's one of the things I found weirdest about this whole thing and I think the reason, for example, that teams like New Orleans and Colorado are rated above Yellowknife in the position groupings is that I only used counting stats. That is, if an offense runs 70 plays against Defense A and 90 against Defense B the players on Defense B will accumulate more statistics even though they likely had a worse performance as a team. That could be as a result of that defense's offense being good and holding onto the ball a lot (but not so good that they score quickly) or that the defense is able to force short possessions.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Yellowknife and Arizona both came out lower than I expected and those are the top two rushing offenses by yards. Baltimore is the other high volume rushing offense and I think an argument could be made that they're below expectations here, too.