Putting Up Numbers· college football

Michigan State’s penalty yards with Alessio Milivojevic and without Alessio Milivojevic

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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Michigan State was 14.8 yards under with Alessio Milivojevic and 5.7 yards over without Alessio Milivojevic over its last 25 games, 12 games against 12. The plain averages are 37.0 and 54.7, a difference of 17.7.

Alessio Milivojevic, quarterback: 2,530 passing yards, 359 pass attempts and 232 completions in 17 of those 25 games.

penalty yards a game over expected

A −20.4 difference in penalty yards over expected with Alessio Milivojevic vs without Alessio Milivojevic is about what you’d expect.

A −17.7 difference in penalty yards with Alessio Milivojevic vs without Alessio Milivojevic is about what you’d expect.

The games

with Alessio Milivojevicwithout Alessio Milivojevic
Michigan State’s games, last 25 games, each marked with Alessio Milivojevic or without Alessio Milivojevic
SideDateGameResultpenalty yardsExpected
Oct 26, 2024@MichiganL3549.3
Nov 2, 2024vsIndianaL2555.0
Nov 16, 2024@IllinoisL7357.9
Nov 22, 2024vsPurdueW7556.6
Nov 30, 2024vsRutgersL7057.0
Aug 29, 2025vsWestern MichiganW3550.4
Sep 6, 2025vsBoston CollegeW6058.2
Sep 13, 2025vsYYoungstown StateW10—
Sep 20, 2025@USCL5358.5
Oct 4, 2025@NebraskaL4548.8
Oct 11, 2025vsUCLAL1451.1
Oct 18, 2025@IndianaL4647.6
Oct 25, 2025vsMichiganL10542.7
Nov 1, 2025@MinnesotaL9653.1
Nov 15, 2025vsPenn StateL2045.4
Nov 22, 2025@IowaL1051.3
Nov 29, 2025vsMaryland (neutral)W5052.2
Sep 4, 2026vsToledoW4349.6
Sep 12, 2026vsEastern MichiganW3257.2
Sep 19, 2026@Notre DameL3052.7
Sep 26, 2026vsNebraskaL6052.4
Oct 3, 2026@WisconsinL549.6
Oct 10, 2026vsIllinoisL6950.9
Oct 17, 2026vsNorthwesternL1555.8
Oct 24, 2026@UCLAL7950.9

Method

Read against .

  • Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every game of its season between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, minus 0.8 in 2024, minus 2.1 in 2025, minus 1.3 in 2026 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 44% in 2024, 45% in 2025, 27% in 2026 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.
  • Youngstown State 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 for 20 of these 25 games; in the other 5 a player is counted as in them when the box score has a stat for him.
  • 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.