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Originally Posted by Megatron96
No one that actually cares about offense cares about "total yards per game." Probably the least useful metric in football. Just saying.
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When people say what an offense is ranked, that's the default standard for what they are referring to. It's definitely not useless as it at least indicates overall production. Points can be very misleading because of turnovers and short fields, etc.
Agree there are better measurements, but if you look at the top and bottom of just yardage rankings it meshes pretty well with what you would expect from each team. Good offenses near the top, bad offenses near the bottom.