According to 247 Team Talent Composite, Ohio State had the second-best overall team talent level in the country and the second-best blue chip ratio. There are enough blue chip players at every position to fill out the two-deep. Ohio State shouldn’t have any issues with overall talent levels in 2018. Instead, Ohio State’s real challenge is identifying players that are above replacement level. Football Outsiders’ NFL stat, Defense-adjusted Yards Above Replacement, or DYAR, gets at this idea: Let’s say you have a running back who carries the ball 300 times in a season. What would happen if you were to remove this player from his team’s offense? What would happen to those 300 plays? Those plays don’t disappear with the player, though some might be lost to the defense because of the associated loss of first downs. Rather those plays would have to be distributed among the remaining players in…
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