Sunday, October 12, 2008

NFL 2008 Referee Statistics through week 5 (10/6/2008)

Here we go with NFL referee statistics for 2008 through week 5 (through October 6, 2008)!

Post a comment with your ideas, criticisms, and suggestions.

Of several potential areas to track, let's start off with the total number of accepted penalties per game and the total number of accepted penalty yards per game. We can also look at the average penalty yards per accepted penalty (which referees have large-yardage penalties?)

Total accepted penalties
Jeff Triplette continues to obliterate the competition with 19 penalties per game! Next are Ed Hochuli (15.4), Ron Winter (14.8), and Wililam Carollo (14.3).
At the bottom, Walt Coleman (7.8) is followed by Gene Steratore (9.2) and Carl Cheffers (9.3)

Total penalty yards
Not a surprise that Jeff Triplette is also burning up the scoreboard on total penalty yards (149 per game). Next are Ron Winter (135), Ed Hochuli (127), and Terry McAulay (118).
At the bottom, Walt Coleman (62) then a few clustered around 72-76: Peter Morelli, Walt Anderson, Carl Cheffers, and Gene Steratore.

Yards per penalty
Who has the largest yards per penalty? Terry McAulay clings to a slender lead at 9.2 per penalty followed by Ron Winter (9.1) and Mike Carey (8.7).
At the bottom: Walt Anderson (6.6) and Peter Morelli (6.8)

Points per game
We have not done adjustments for the teams in each game, so here are some raw numbers, no doubt affected by the teams assigned to the referees:
Highest points per game is Peter Morelli (55), Terry McAulay (54.5), Bill Leavy (51.5) and Ron Winter (51.3).
At the bottom, Walt Anderson (36.2), Tony Corrente (39.4), and John Parry (39.5).

Week 5 Cheat Sheet
For this week's cheat sheet, we list the referee along with total accepted penalties, total penalty yards, yards per penalty, and total points per game. Doubt you'll see these posted on your television during the game, although I think they should be!

Ref Ttlpen Ttlyd AvgPen Ttl pts
Anderson, Walt 11.0 73 6.6 36.2
Boger, Jerome 13.5 96 7.1 49.0
Carey, Mike 11.0 95 8.7 45.0
Carollo, William 14.3 108 7.6 41.3
Cheffers, Carl 9.3 74 7.9 41.5
Coleman, Walt 7.8 62 7.9 46.4
Corrente, Tony 11.8 91 7.7 39.4
Green, Scott 11.4 85 7.5 49.4
Hochuli, Ed 15.4 127 8.2 45.6
Leavy, Bill 12.5 88 7.0 51.5
McAulay, Terry 12.8 118 9.2 54.5
Morelli, Peter 10.7 72 6.8 55.0
Parry, John 11.5 95 8.2 39.5
Riveron, Alberto 11.0 90 8.2 42.4
Steratore, Gene 9.2 76 8.3 40.4
Triplette, Jeff 19.0 149 7.9 43.3
Winter, Ron 14.8 135 9.1 51.3

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