Conference distributions
Compare the spread of team metrics at one captured season and cutoff.
2026 · through provider Week 8. Conference membership is the label captured in this season's stats rows, fixed for this comparison. It is not reconstructed game-by-game membership.
All source games, including garbage time, from the recorded Week 1–8 request. Conference-only metrics are unavailable from these team aggregates. Opponent classification is not supplied; no FCS exclusion is inferred. Raw PPA and success rates are not opponent adjusted and do not establish which conference is stronger.
Offense raw PPA/play · points added per play before opponent adjustment. Higher values are favorable. One point per team; equal team weights, not a pooled play-weighted conference rate. Different team/play counts remain visible.
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Boxes show the middle half of team values, with median line and observed minimum/maximum whiskers. Quartiles interpolate at (N−1)×p. Vertical point displacement is only for legibility. These are team distributions, not confidence intervals or a common conference ranking; one-team groups have no meaningful spread.
| Conference | Usable / captured teams | Mean of teams | Min / Q1 / median / Q3 / max | Source offense plays | Source games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Ten | 18 / 18 | 0.156 | -0.023 / 0.102 / 0.143 / 0.234 / 0.325 | 8,574 across 18 known teams; 0 unknown | Unavailable |
| SEC | 16 / 16 | 0.163 | -0.006 / 0.075 / 0.164 / 0.241 / 0.355 | 8,176 across 16 known teams; 0 unknown | Unavailable |
Play totals cover the plotted teams with known counts; they are source context, not verified metric-specific denominators. No source game-count field exists in this aggregate. Missing/invalid metrics and known zero-play samples are omitted from points, never filled with zero.