The Steelers now have 3 games in the books and there is now enough data to start tracking the formation stats. The formations should not be confused with personnel packages. Personnel packages are packages by position, not formation.
All of these formations listed were at the snap of the ball and after all motions. In the formations below, if a tight end or wide receiver was lined up as an h-back in the backfield, he was counted as a running back. On the flip-side if a tight end was not down on the end of the line of scrimmage, he was deemed a wide receiver in the formation.
As the table shows below, the most used formation has been the 10, which is 1 player lined up as a running back or h-back and 4 wide receivers. It has produced 1 touchdown and 355 yards of offense. The next most used snap formation is the 11, which consist of 1 player lined up as a running back or h-back, 1 player as a tight end and 3 players lined up as wide receivers. This has produced 235 yards of offense and 1 touchdown.
As far as empty sets go, you combine the first two rows which would be the 0 and the 1 formations. This totals 38 plays. Passing wise it has resulted in 14 completions on 30 attempts for 173 yards passing. It also has resulted in 4 sacks, 3 scrambles, 1 touchdown and 4 of the 9 sacks. The yards per passing attempt with empty sets is a mere 5.77.
Please feel free to post your additional observations below in the comments and any questions you may have. Please alert me to any discrepancies you might find and I hope to post these now weekly.
| FORMATION | PLAYS | RUSH | YDS | YPC | TD | ATT | COMP | COMP % | YDS | YPA | INT | TD | SCK | SCR | SCR YDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0RB 0TE 5WR | 27 | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 21 | 10 | 48% | 133 | 6.3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
| 0RB 1TE 4WR | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 44% | 40 | 4.4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 1RB 0TE 4WR | 43 | 10 | 28 | 2.8 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 67% | 327 | 10.9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1RB 1TE 3WR | 38 | 13 | 37 | 2.8 | 0 | 24 | 18 | 75% | 198 | 8.3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1RB 2TE 2WR | 15 | 4 | 23 | 5.8 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 78% | 159 | 17.7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 1RB 3TE 1WR | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2RB 0TE 3WR | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 57% | 48 | 6.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2RB 1TE 2WR | 16 | 10 | 65 | 6.5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 83% | 37 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2RB 2TE 1WR | 15 | 15 | 24 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2RB 3TE 0WR | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3RB 0TE 2WR | 3 | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3RB 1TE 1WR | 4 | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3RB 2TE 0WR | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| VICTORY | 4 | 4 | -3 | -0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 197 | 74 | 223 | 3.0 | 2 | 109 | 70 | 64% | 957 | 8.8 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 34 |
