The last 7 years the teams in the Boxes on this page are an amazing 153-37-33 doing what the charts expected either Going Up or Going Down! Metrics, Metrics, Metrics. I put this article in for the first time in 2004 & it continues to be an accurate forecaster of whether a team will record will finish with a stronger or weaker record the next year. First of all, let me explain what YPP is exactly. A YPP is simply yards per point. An offense is more efficient when their YPP is a lower number. If a team had an offensive YPP of 10.0, that would mean for every 200 yards gained, they scored 20 points. Meanwhile, if they had an offensive YPP of 20.0, then for every 200 yards gained, they only scored 10 points. Defenses want to have a higher YPP. Inverting the same thought, if a team allowed 200 yards and had a 20.0 YPP, that means they would allow just 10 points for every 200 yards the opposition traveled, whereas a 10.0 YPP would be 20 points for every 200 yards allowed. When I started this research in 1990, the average YPP for a team was 15.44. With all the rule changes slanted to the offense, it is no surprise that the median has dropped significantly since then (13.87 in ‘20, 14.1 ‘21, 13.9 ‘23, 14.3 ‘24).

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