This article is the fourth in an offseason series investigating issues from Oregon’s 2018 football season; this will focus on the Ducks’ passing offense. I use statistical analysis of my play-by-play charts of each game to try to answer big questions in a methodologically rigorous manner. To that end, I’m excluding garbage time from each game, as well as the first three non-conference games and the Civil War as these were FCS-caliber opponents. For more information about the dataset I’m using, please see my February article on playcalling.
After excluding unhelpful data, we have 242 designed downfield passing plays to analyze.