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Nerdstats aren't helping

Yesterday, he pointed me to some nerdstats that didn't make me feel very good. I had asked if there were nerdstats that discussed field position, and he pointed me to the ever-brilliant Football Outsiders and their "Field Position Advantage" statistic, which is "the measure of each team's share of field position scoring opportunities over the course of a game".

Illinois' ranking? 104th. Sitting down? It gets worse.

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