Louisiana Monroe’s third-down conversion rate with Aidan Armenta and without Aidan Armenta
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Louisiana Monroe was 7.1 percentage points under with Aidan Armenta and 10.8 percentage points under without Aidan Armenta in 2026, 6 games against 1. The plain averages are 26.9% and 41.1%, a difference of 14.2%. Both night games were with Aidan Armenta. All 4 conference games were with Aidan Armenta. All 4 second-half games were with Aidan Armenta.
Aidan Armenta, quarterback: 1,300 passing yards, 180 pass attempts and 112 completions in 7 games this season.
2 games without Aidan Armenta is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
third-down conversion rate a game over expected
A −14.2% difference in third-down conversion rate with Aidan Armenta vs without Aidan Armenta is about what you’d expect.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | 3rd downs | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | @ Mississippi State | L | 18.8% | 33.1% | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | @ UAB | L | 25.0% | 35.8% | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vsSS E Louisiana | L | 57.1% | — | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vs Florida Atlantic | L | 30.8% | 36.4% | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ South Alabama | L | 23.1% | 34.1% | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vs Louisiana Tech | L | 18.2% | 34.8% | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @ Troy | W | 26.7% | 32.4% | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | vs Southern Miss | L | 43.8% | 32.8% |
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, plus 1.4% 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 40% 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.
- S E Louisiana 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.