Here is the midpoint on completion percentage at each depth:
Deep 36.4% Only 7 guys above 50%
Intermediate 54.6%
Short 74.4%
Behind the LOS 90.3%. 106 of 126 are above 85%.
So again, using completion percentage on a standalone basis when other data is fairly readily available is not a good indicator. If you stay short and behind the LOS, if you do that in an equal ratio, the average guy is around 83-84%. That same consideration for intermediate/deep is around 45%.
The fact is, and strongly supported by the numbers, that if you push the ball down the field, the completion percentage goes down.
At this time, I am looking up the numbers as I type. Well will go Dart, Ewers, Shough.
Ewers on deep/intermediate is at 34% of drop backs. At short/behind the LOS, he’s at 60%. On the first grouping he’s at 47% completion percentage. 83% at the shorter depths. Overall completion percentage at 65.8%.
Dart. 44.4%/49.8%. 56.5% completion percentage deep/int and 88.4% short/los. Overall completion percentage is 69.2%.
Shough. 31.9%/58.5% on target breakdown. 52.8% and 77.2%. Overall completion percentage is 62.1%.
This tells you some things about Dart relative to the other two. Ewers looks better than Shough. Shough is behind the LOS 13% of the time, 10% of those are screens. Ewers is at 28% with a 17.5% screen ratio. So when parsed a bit more Ewers gains about 2% completion points compared to Shough because he goes even shorter more often.