VT vs Syracuse 'Advanced' Box Score(s)

What up Nerds! Back at it again with another 'Advanced' Box Score, but doing it a little different this week. Some of the feedback in previous threads was that there was less interest in trying to use metrics to better understand what happened in the game, and more interest in understanding how a given performance compares to past performances. So, to do this, we have 6 'advanced' comparative box scores.

When VT is on Offense:
First, let's compare how this VT offensive performance compares against the season's past offensive performances

The five right-most columns are the Min, Max, and different quartiles for all 9 games. The color-coded columns are VT performance against Syracuse. Green is good and red is bad (relative to past performances). As you can see, VT had season highs in Success Rates and most rushing statistics.

Next, we can compare how the VT offense performed relative to Syracuse's past opponents
What we see here is that no other Syracuse opponent was able to run on Syracuse quite like VT did.

When VT is on Defense:
Here, we are comparing this VT defense performance against the season's past defensive performances
Lots of green means that this was the best defense performance (NOT adjusted for quality of opponent) this year.

Now, we can compare how the VT defense performed relative to Syracuse's past opponents
Here, we see that this was one of the worst offensive performances that Syracuse has had to date

Comparing this VT performance to National Averages
Okay, so this comparison is a little wonky because we're comparing VT's performance in a single game to the average performance for each other team.

For example - take a look at Total Line Yards per Game. You'll notice that VT got 203 Line Yards against Syracuse, but 'Maximum' for the country is 200. That's not saying that VT has the most like yards in a single game all season; rather, it's saying that Arizona is averaging 200 line yards per game, and that is the most any team is averaging this season.

As always, data comes from Collegefootballdata.com. If any questions, check out their glossary.

Let me know if you like this format. Questions and Feedback are welcomed.