Notre Dame Football Stats and Analytics: Running VS Passing

Our new Notre Dame Fighting Irish distribution charts show the efficiency of pass and run plays in various situations. To understand the charts, if you pick a place on the X-axis and draw a vertical line upwards, the shaded area to the left of that line would represent the % of plays that resulted in less than the EPA number at that point on the x-axis (this will make more sense looking at the graphs, we promise). For an explanation of EPA, please follow this link to our analytics primer.

The first thing to learn is how dependent on big plays offenses are.