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San Francisco 49ers 2016 vs Pittsburgh Steelers 2025

Two offensive identities side by side — any team, any season against any other — the flow of each attack and a play-calling ledger with the shift on every metric.

Play-calling ledger · the shift is San Francisco 49ers 2016 minus Pittsburgh Steelers 2025
MetricSFShiftPIT
Plays9881,030
Pass rate59.6%−1.5%61.2%
Shotgun rate73.0%+7.3%65.6%
Explosive rate12.2%+0.4%11.8%
Success rate39.6%−3.5%43.1%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel76.2%+25.8%50.4%
12 personnel19.6%−12.8%32.4%
21 personnel0.0%−2.3%2.3%
13 personnel0.0%−12.8%12.8%
10 personnel1.6%+1.6%0.0%
20 personnel1.2%+1.2%0.0%
Other personnel1.3%−0.4%1.7%

Read the ledger, then the flows below: the table is the precise shift; the alluvials are the shape.

San Francisco 49ers · 2016
PersonnelFormationRun / PassOutcome11121020OtherShotgunPistolEmptyRunPassExplosiveSuccessFailure
Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnelShotgun565
11 personnelPistol137
12 personnelShotgun129
12 personnelPistol51
11 personnelEmpty37
20 personnelShotgun12
10 personnelShotgun11
11 personnelUnknown8
12 personnelEmpty8
11 personnelSingleback6
OtherPistol5
12 personnelSingleback4
OtherShotgun4
OtherEmpty3
10 personnelEmpty2
10 personnelPistol2
12 personnelUnknown2
10 personnelUnknown1
OtherOther1
ShotgunPass501
ShotgunRun220
PistolRun167
EmptyPass49
PistolPass28
SinglebackPass6
UnknownRun6
UnknownPass5
SinglebackRun4
EmptyRun1
OtherRun1
PassFailure347
RunFailure250
PassSuccess162
RunSuccess108
PassExplosive80
RunExplosive41
Pittsburgh Steelers · 2025
PersonnelFormationRun / PassOutcome11121321OtherUnknownShotgunUnder CenterRunPassExplosiveSuccessFailure
Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnelShotgun391
12 personnelShotgun192
12 personnelUnder Center136
11 personnelUnder Center124
13 personnelUnder Center67
13 personnelShotgun61
21 personnelShotgun22
OtherShotgun10
12 personnelPistol6
OtherUnder Center6
11 personnelPistol4
13 personnelPistol4
UnknownUnder Center3
OtherPistol2
21 personnelPistol1
21 personnelUnder Center1
ShotgunPass524
Under CenterRun237
ShotgunRun152
Under CenterPass100
PistolRun11
PistolPass6
PassFailure363
RunFailure223
PassSuccess189
RunSuccess133
PassExplosive78
RunExplosive44