Winning Percentage vs Penalty yards per penalty

Since i can't watch the game today I had some free time. So for the last 4 years here is a scatter plot for winning percentage vs yards per penalty. The idea is that if mental error penalties (false starts, illegal formations) had an effect on winning then we would see teams with lower penalty yards per penalty have a losing record.

However, there seems to be no pattern.

Just for completeness, here is winning percentage vs number of penalties per game

That huge outlier for 2021 is Toledo. Tennessee this year is the undefeated outlier. It could be said that if you want to be undefeated you need to have less penalties overall, but what those penalties are doesn't really matter.

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