International Centre for Special Teams Research

The fourth meeting of the International Centre for Special Teams research is hereby convened for the purpose of evaluating special teams.

If you recall, this is a system I have been cooking up for some time. It awards points for positive plays and negative plays made on special teams, and gives no points to plays which are expected or in an ordinary range. You can read the explanation here if you like.

A couple of events happened that I hadn't anticipated. The first one is a roughing the punter penalty. Since it allows the offensive team to keep the ball, I'm going to treat it as a turnover...-3. Also, there was a 2-point conversion. I don't give any points for kicking a PAT, so I decided that getting the deuce is worth one point.

On Bowling Green's side, I would suggest that special teams might have been the highlight in Saturday's game, given the dominance the Broncos had on both sides of the ball. BG did not have a positive special teams play, but did have 4 negative plays. One of those, the missed FG, was pretty important, the other three are pretty close to being neutral plays.

On the Boise side, they were only -2 for the game. They had 5 positive plays that were OK, but then had 5 negative points for -7, including the game's biggest special teams play, the roughing the kicker penalty that extended BG's first quarter drive.

Bowling Green Positive

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Bowling Green Negative (-4)

Missed 29 yd FG (-1)

BG returns kickoff to own 19 (-1)

BG Ko return to own 19 after penalty (-1)

BG KO return to own 20 (-1)

Bowling Green Neutral

BG KO return to own 23

BG punt net 42 yards (roughing)

Boise net punt 27 yards

BG Punt net 40 yards

BG net punt 31 yards

BG KO return to own 29

BG KO return to own 36

BG Punt for 37 yard net

BG punt 38 yard net

Boise KO return to own 26

BG Extra point

Boise KO return to own 34

BG Extra point

Boise KO return to own 23

BG punt 31 net yards

Boise positive (+5)

Boise punt 49 yard net (+1)

Boise 2 pointer (+1)

Boise KO touchback (+1)

Boise punt inside 20 (+1)

BG kickoff return to own 20 (+1)

Boise negative (-7)

Roughing the punter (-3)

KO Out of bounds (-1)

FG missed (bad snap) (-1)

FG Missed (-1)

Missed xp (-1)

Boise neutral

BG KO return to own 23

BG KO return to own 29

Boise KO return to own 26

Boise KO return to own 34

Boise KO return to own 23

Boise net punt 27 yards

Boise xp

Boise xp

BG KO return to own 36

Boise xp

Boise xp