Project overview

This report reflects an actual program's 2025 season penalty history. The institution's identity has been removed to protect their privacy; the underlying data and findings are real. It illustrates what CPG Elite's Tier 2 penalty and technique tracking looks like in practice. The goal is to identify root causes of on-field discipline issues and surface specific, player-level technique feedback coaches can act on immediately: not just a penalty count.

Key findings

Penalty volume: The program recorded 119 total penalties across 9 games, averaging 13.2 penalties per game. Offensive penalties (61) outpaced defensive penalties (47), with 8 special-teams fouls rounding out the total.

Discipline vs. technique: 58% of categorized fouls were "Discipline" (mental) errors rather than "Technique" (physical) errors: meaning most of these plays are coachable through repetition and communication, not raw ability.

The real hot spot is 2nd quarter, not 4th: Penalty frequency peaked in the 2nd quarter with 44 flags, well ahead of Q4's 30. Zooming into game clock, the pattern gets sharper still: 17 of those Q2 penalties land in the final 3 minutes alone, nearly triple any other single 3-minute window all game. That's an end-of-half tempo problem (rushed play calls, hurry-up procedure errors), not a fatigue-driven fade. Q4 is actually front-loaded (9 penalties in its first 3 minutes, down to 3 by the end), the opposite of a late-game collapse.

Top offenders: Player 6 led with 9 penalties, followed by Player 11 with 7. A group of five players tied at 6 each: Players 13, 60, 7, 8, and 23. Player 23's 6 penalties were all the same foul type (Delay of Game): a single-issue player, not a general discipline problem.

Call accuracy: Officials were correct on 95.6% of graded penalty calls (108 Correct Calls vs. 5 Incorrect Calls), indicating these penalties are almost entirely self-inflicted rather than the result of officiating variance.

Most frequent foul types

Recommendations

1. End-of-half tempo discipline: The single clearest pattern in the data is the final 3 minutes of the 2nd quarter (17 penalties). Prioritize two-minute-drill rep work: play-clock management and clean personnel calls under rushed tempo, specifically before halftime.

2. Snap-count discipline program: False Start and Delay of Game together account for a quarter of all penalties (30 of 119): both are rhythm and communication issues, not physical ones. Live cadence reps and tighter play-clock management will resolve most of these.

3. Individual technique plans: Develop personalized film-review and drill plans for the top offenders, built directly from the technique notes captured on each of their flagged plays: not a generic team-wide drill. Player 23 in particular needs a single, targeted fix (Delay of Game only) rather than a broad discipline intervention.

4. Emotional control training: Of 14 unsportsmanlike penalties, 8 occurred in the 4th quarter: build a simple in-game reset routine coaches can use in the moment before frustration turns into a flag, focused on late-game situations specifically.