Throughout the process of writing previews about each FBS team in the offseason, I inevitably find myself making some generalizations. It's impossible not to. I don't have time to review film of each game or read about each incoming recruit, so I make what I hope are reasonably educated inferences.

One assumption I've made through the years is that you can make assumptions about a quarterback or his aggressiveness based on completion rate and yards per completion. A 50 percent completion rate at 17 yards per completion certainly gives you a pretty good clue of a quarterback's, or an offense's, aggressiveness in the passing game. It's the same for a quarterback with a 70 percent completion rate averaging 10 yards per completion.

While it's certainly true that you can gauge quality by looking at these two figures (and the resulting "yards per pass" figure), I assumed there would be a general correlation between the two. Turns out, that's not really the case. Looking at the 153 FBS quarterbacks who threw at least 100 passes last season, I ended up with this scatter plot:

There is only the tiniest of correlations between the two. Of the 24 quarterbacks who completed at least 65 percent of their passes, four averaged at least 13 yards per completion, and three averaged under 10. Of the 21 QBs who completed under 53 percent of their passes, four averaged at least 15 yards per completion, and three averaged under 11.

The same goes for the relationship between yards per completion and INT rate. My assumption was that if you averaged more yards per completion, that was a sign of aggressive passing that would also result in more picks. That's ... just barely true.

Of the 26 QBs who averaged at least 14 yards per completion, six had an INT rate under 2 percent and four were at 3.5 percent or higher. Of the 21 QBs who averaged 10.5 or fewer yards per completion, five had an INT rate at 4 percent or higher, and four were lower than 2.5 percent.

So what does this mean exactly? Well, among other things, quality matters. That's the ultimate "duh," but this suggests that quality and skill matter even more than one would think. You can't really generalize about a QB or a passing game based on merely his per-completion yardage or completion rate.

Of course, this also reminds us of the importance of charting data. A QB could be hitting 65 percent because he's throwing one-third of his passes behind the line of scrimmage, or because he's awesome (or, technically, both). There's an obvious correlation between the distance of passes and completion rate, but I thought more of that would rub off on the box score stats. It doesn't.

That brings me to a different topic: I don't think I'm going to be attempting any full-scale charting project this fall. There are a few reasons for this:

1. It's hard. It takes quite a bit of time charting games, and it takes ME quite a bit of time coordinating charter schedules. And since I don't have a way of paying charters, there is predictable, understandable attrition from the number of people who volunteer at the beginning of the season and the number at the end.

2. Nobody's really using the data. We had some issues pulling last season's charting data together into one giant file for use, but people weren't using the data anyway. The goal was to have a giant data set available for people to use, but nobody really used the 2013 version. That certainly dampens motivation to do it again.

3. Pro Football Focus does it much, much better than we could anyway. They pay charters, they undergo more detailed charting, and they began doing college games last year. It costs an exorbitant amount to use their data, which stinks simply from a "some random blogger can't get curious and check something out" perspective, but it makes sense considering the money they make from teams and other media outlets.

So I'm going small-scale in 2015. Intern Chris Brown will still be charting games, and I'll be chatting with others about doing the same. I'll be crafting a Charting Box Score of sorts to use for the week's bigger games, and perhaps that will kindle interest in a more large-scale effort again next season. If you're interested in charting games, drop me a line -- I certainly don't want to stop you, and we still have a pretty good template for doing so. But the effort will be done on a much smaller scale this time around.