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9-72016 Season
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2016 Formation Usage

FormationPlaysSharePass%Yds/PlayEPA/PlaySuccessTop Personnel
SHOTGUN63963%81%6.3+0.1348.4%1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR
PISTOL16516%32%4.2-0.1233.9%1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR
SINGLEBACK969%34%5.1-0.0436.5%1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR
EMPTY586%93%5.5+0.2048.3%1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR
I FORM505%16%2.5-0.3534.0%2 RB, 1 TE, 2 WR
JUMBO81%0%-0.1-0.4937.5%6 OL, 2 RB, 2 TE, 0 WR
WILDCAT10%0%6.0+0.16100.0%6 OL, 1 RB, 0 TE, 3 WR

Diagrams are canonical renderings of each formation and its most-used personnel group. Play-by-play records who was on the field, not where they stood — alignment detail comes from player tracking, which is not published in the public feed. The “on the field” counts are real: they are the players the ball actually reached out of that look, so linemen never appear.