Stats

[takes11]

Can someone explain to me how not 1 but 2 kids on a team already have 30 tackles each in 2 games. D1 schools gotta be knocking the doors down at this high school if this stats are true.

 

[Ampipe_High]

The coaches or whoever does stats is probably awarding full tackles when it's just an assist and not awarding .5 for assists.

It's a gotta keep my players on an even playing field. If a program awards partial tackles for assists and another program is doing full for every tackle, even if they're the 4th person to jump on a pile, then the kids at the 1st school are at a major disadvantage when it comes time for all district/region/state voting. You'd really have to be balling out to have 30 in two games being awarded partial tackles for assists.

 

[takes11]

Shame on the stat man then.

 

[Reecesdad]

Shame on the stat man then.

It's not necessarily the stat man. It's more than likely the head coaches policy.

 

[lawhoo1819]

By the book there should be either 1 solo tackle credited on a play or 2 assisted tackles. So a team's starting ILB might have 2 solo tackles and 6 assisted tackles for a total of 8 total tackles.

What many high school coaches do, though, is give tackling credit to any kid who showed up to the pile or laid a hand on the ball carrier. So the ILB in our example above might have shown up and made some contact after the ball carrier's momentum was stopped 10 or 15 times during a game, and if his coach gives him credit for those plays he goes from 8 tackles to 23. Tackle stats are hard to trust at any level, but in HS you better be taking them with a heavy grain of salt. When voting for all-district/region/state, coaches should be going on what they saw on tape and during the game more so than the tackling statistics compiled by the player's coach.

 

[takes11]

By the book there should be either 1 solo tackle credited on a play or 2 assisted tackles. So a team's starting ILB might have 2 solo tackles and 6 assisted tackles for a total of 8 total tackles.

What many high school coaches do, though, is give tackling credit to any kid who showed up to the pile or laid a hand on the ball carrier. So the ILB in our example above might have shown up and made some contact after the ball carrier's momentum was stopped 10 or 15 times during a game, and if his coach gives him credit for those plays he goes from 8 tackles to 23. Tackle stats are hard to trust at any level, but in HS you better be taking them with a heavy grain of salt. When voting for all-district/region/state, coaches should be going on what they saw on tape and during the game more so than the tackling statistics compiled by the player's coach.

I looked at the other players stats and there is not a kid even sniffing close to the stats of these 2 kids. Ridiculous

 

[RobberBrown]

Oh my don't get me started on this topic; tackle counts drive me crazy. Some of that stats are so inflated its not even funny. There's some plays when there's a massive pile and so they give all the guys on the pile a tackle; drives me crazy, I go back and rewatch games on NFHS when I see some crazy number and still cant come up with half the amount some of these coaches put out on stat sheets. Really screws over some good defensive players at all district, all region, and all state meetings because they use stats a lot of times.

 

[takes11]

Had a case also where a stat/coach was crediting a qb and a rb yards from where they threw the ball from and where the rb took the handoff instead of counting yds from the line of scrimmage.

 

[NND Sports Fan]

I've heard that one before!! Team gets shutout with only a couple first downs yet rushes for 130 yards!!!