Grupe
I was like you in terms of looking at raw data but it was a very persuasive analysis as to why that statistic of itself doesn’t carry much weight. I wish I could find the interview.
Darren Rizzi, special teams coordinator, gave a really intriguing interview preseason about their choice of Grupe over Lutz. It was long and detailed but the effect of it was, of all the metrics used to evaluate college kickers, FG %age is quite low in the hierarchy (because of issues with holding the kick, where the hash marks are, etc).They outsmarted themselves withn Grupe. I looked at his college career and yikes, here it is:
74.3% in college with some years in the 60-67% range, and basically a small school guy also. Lutz is 84.8% for his career.
And ever reminiscent of bad Saints teams, he leads the team in scoring by a mile with 59 of the 133 points.
I was like you in terms of looking at raw data but it was a very persuasive analysis as to why that statistic of itself doesn’t carry much weight. I wish I could find the interview.