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Exiled_From_Twitter t1_jdpudnh wrote

Such poor analysis. There are simply just more QB's who are "taller" and you don't take into account pass attempts in any meaningful way (bubbles aren't really taking it into account in the actual analysis, just noting it).

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KJ6BWB OP t1_jdpusmg wrote

Because pass attempts is highly correlated with overall yards as shown here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/122c5b2/american_football_starting_quarterback_pass/

Since they're so highly correlated, we can ignore them in this chart if desired -- I included them as bubble size because I thought I might get a response like this.

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Exiled_From_Twitter t1_jdpw9z9 wrote

But that's the point, if you throw more you will have more yards. You are using counting stats and not efficiency, which is way more useful. There's no correlation whatsoever between a quarterback's height and his overall performance.

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