What Matters in the Playoffs?

The same things that matter in the regular season

• The top 2 stats, Drive Success Rate and ANPY/A, are the best in the Regular Season, and have equally high win rates in the Playoffs, only suffering a slight drop-off.  Raise your hand, who didn’t think this was the case?
• Turnovers had a similar small drop-off, but got surpassed by 3 different stats.  Still very important, but not as important as the Regular Season.  My reason why?  Better teams can overcome turning the ball over more so than bad teams.
• The stat that had the highest jump?  Average Starting Position, jumping 10.1% from the Regular Season percentage.  That was unexpected, unless you remember the Colts playoff game last year: the Colts started at the 15 yard line, the Chargers started at the 35.  May have been anecdotal evidence, but not any more.  It’s pretty important.