Late in the spring, as the realities of off season hit, I started a project. The goal was to either find a useful metric to rank punters or find a means of quantifying their contributions to the defense. This article is a continuation of that pursuit. The original attempt was very much a work in progress, now this is an attempt to reduce some of the limitations and explore the assumptions of earlier analysis.
Adjusting points scored per game
One of the first problems that arose from the previous attempt was using number of punt placement and comparing it to points allowed on defense.