East Carolina’s penalty yards with Mitch Griffis and without Mitch Griffis
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, East Carolina was 0.7 yards under with Mitch Griffis and 20.7 yards under without Mitch Griffis in 2026, 5 games against 2. The plain averages are 54.4 and 60.0, a difference of 5.6.
Mitch Griffis, quarterback: 753 passing yards, 126 pass attempts and 69 completions in 8 games this season.
3 games without Mitch Griffis is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
penalty yards a game over expected
A +20.0 difference in penalty yards over expected with Mitch Griffis vs without Mitch Griffis is about what you’d expect.
A −5.6 difference in penalty yards with Mitch Griffis vs without Mitch Griffis is a bit unusual: shuffle which games were with Mitch Griffis and it comes up 16 times in 100.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | penalty yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | @ Alabama | L | 61 | 54.9 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vs Appalachian State | L | 72 | 54.0 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | @ Old Dominion | W | 85 | 58.3 | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vsNNorth Carolina Central | W | 120 | — | |
| Oct 10, 2026 | vs Rice | W | 15 | 51.4 | |
| Oct 15, 2026 | @ UAB | L | 45 | 50.0 | |
| Oct 22, 2026 | @ Memphis | L | 23 | 58.0 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | vs Temple | W | 31 | 50.4 |
Method
- Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every 2026 game between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, minus 1.3 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
- Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 27% of the difference the model predicts.
- The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.
- North Carolina Central has no other game in the table, so that game has no expected number and sits out the second figure.
- Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists, which name every player who entered the game.
- With him means he was the team’s quarterback that game, at least half of its pass attempts; a game he left early or came into late reads as without him.