Advanced Stats Analysis: Previewing Notre Dame’s Skill Players

Transitioning to 2020 content, we looked at the EPA/play and Success Rates (when the sample size was large enough) with the skill players for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. We’ll focus first on what the Irish need to replace in Chase Claypool, Tony Jones, Chris Finke, and Cole Kmet, and then the returning playmakers that are going to have to step up to replace them. Please follow this link to an article with a primer on the statistics that will be used in this article.

This is a chart I posted a couple months ago on Twitter, showing a player’s EPA/Play and the amount of touches they received in the 2019 season.