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TL;DR: It's not by default more effective than running, but the rules have changed over the years to encourage passing more than running, with the one caveat that most teams are heavily influenced by the West Coast Offense...which also benefited from rule changes favoring the pass game.
Sep 12, 2019 · Recent years have seen an explosion in the NFL passing game, and emerging analytics demonstrate that teams that throw the ball more, win the game more. So does this mean the run no longer matters? That’s not entirely clear.
The break-even WP—where pass plays start to have a higher EPA than run plays—was 13% in 2019. Theoretically, at this WP, pass plays became sufficiently unpredictable such that passing was more effective than running. Pass play percentage decreases as WP increases.
Oct 31, 2021 · The Eagles’ problems on offense this season have been based on ineffective passing more than the lack of running. But if they’re effective running the ball, there will be fewer incomplete...
Sep 6, 2013 · Looking at just yards per attempt, one would think that NFL teams aren’t more effective at passing now than they were in the middle of the 1950s. But the next stage in the aerial evolution didn’t make the passing game more productive: it made it more consistent.
Sep 27, 2024 · Football fans and NFL media alike grew a bit too accustomed to gaudy numbers and high-scoring games during the big boom of passing offense over the last decade.
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Oct 29, 2021 · Running play-action is just as effective when you’ve run the ball 30% of the time as it is when you run it 50% of the time. What’s more, it doesn’t matter if you’re breaking off big chunks on those runs, either. That’s true in season-long data sets and within individual games as well.
