Taller American football players tend to throw for more total yards [OC]Submitted by KJ6BWB t3_122avg2 in dataisbeautiful
KJ6BWB OP t1_jdpusmg wrote
Reply to comment by Exiled_From_Twitter in Taller American football players tend to throw for more total yards [OC] by KJ6BWB
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.
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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