This is the second part of an offseason series investigating mysteries about the 2018 Ducks football season, using my game charts and film study of the team last fall (here’s the previous one about the offensive line). This month I’ll be examining offensive playcalling and whether it was suboptimal or not. Two notes before we begin:
First, this article will be limited to what I can study rigorously and objectively: the success rates of various offensive plays in different down & distance situations. It is not concerned with general offensive philosophy, aesthetic preferences, special teams decisions, or anything else the lexically profligate lump into the term “playcalling”.