Season Review Through Six Games
The latest newsletter from KCSN Sports Data Scientist, Joseph Hefner.
A full third of the season is over, and our very own Kansas City Chiefs are sitting at 5-1 atop the AFC, over juggernauts like the Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills. I think it’s time to take a look at what we’ve done to get here, and how it looks different than last year.
The Chiefs saw some significant turnover this year on the offensive side of the ball. We replaced both tackles, lost JuJu Smith-Schuster and Mecole Hardman to free agency, and lost Eric Bienemy to Washington. That’s a lot of differences in one offseason, so let’s see what’s been going on this year.
First up, I looked at the personnel groupings we are using on offense. I wanted to see how those have changed from last year. This graphic shows how often we are using each grouping, and how that relates to the NFL averages for that year. This graphic also shows the pass rate and EPA/play out of each personnel grouping. Obviously, last year has a much bigger sample size, since we only have 6 games this year so far, so this year’s numbers do suffer from that small sample size.