If you have been a player, coach, or spectator in ultimate, it’s likely you’ve heard some variation of the following after a game.

“Our o-line was terrible that game. The d-line got the breaks we needed but we just got broken too many times to win.”

“Our d-line had their chances but we just couldn’t put them in. You can’t ask the o-line to do anything more. They only got broken a few times and we still lost.”

These statements aren’t always the best way to build a sense of unity within a team, but they get at a question about how frequently teams score when starting a point on offense. The rates that an offense will score is highly dependent on the division, the weather, and the opponent that a team is facing. But if we aggregate data for many games, at what rate do teams score offensive points?

For this article, I want to share what rates offensive lines score points in the D-I college division. To do this, I scraped data from USAU’s website which includes point-by-point score totals for most games at D-1 College Nationals from 2014–2017. From the point-by-point data, we can determine if each point is a break or an offensive hold for each team. Below I’ve aggregated these data for 208 games in the Men’s division and 198 games in the Women’s division. There were some games missing from the USAU website or games had missing or incorrect point-by-point entries. Regardless, this is still a nice data set to gather some high-level data for the college game.