Some people have been tweeting and trading comments lately about the validity or otherwise of tracking “turnover-worthy” plays. I’ve joined in a couple of times because I find the discussion amusing, though I sense that a lot of the entrenched positions are less lighthearted than my own.
I get the idea of ‘turnover-worthy” plays; the adjustment is designed to provide context to statistical results. It’s a way of valuing process over production on the theory that doing it right more often (relying on skill) is better than otherwise (relying on luck).
People who are in the business of analyzing NFL statistical performance have been contextualizing stats for a long long time.