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KJ6BWB OP t1_jdpq4ok wrote

Total passing yards appears to be highly correlated with attempts to pass the ball. Other than Patrick Mahomes, out of the 32 starting quarterbacks, there doesn't appear to be statistical outliers. In general, per https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/122avg2/taller_american_football_players_tend_to_throw/ taller quarterbacks means more total yards but it would appear total pass attempts is even more important.

Although, the trendline is polynomial. It would appear there is some slight amount of diminishing returns as number of pass attempts increases -- it's not purely linear. As pass attempts increases, in general you have to throw more and more passes to continue to increase in total yardage (which everyone does).

Unless you're Patrick Mahomes who is apparently a throwing machine.

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