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San Francisco 49ers 2025 vs New England Patriots 2016

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.

SF season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

NE season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

AARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

BARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

Play-calling ledger · the shift is San Francisco 49ers 2025 minus New England Patriots 2016

Metric	SF	Shift	NE
Plays	1,175	—	1,260
Pass rate	59.4%	+0.2%	59.2%
Shotgun rate	52.4%	+10.4%	42.0%
Explosive rate	11.5%	−1.7%	13.2%
Success rate	47.7%	+3.5%	44.2%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	43.5%	−5.0%	48.5%
12 personnel	10.7%	−4.6%	15.3%
21 personnel	37.3%	+16.2%	21.1%
22 personnel	7.6%	+1.2%	6.3%
10 personnel	0.0%	−3.0%	3.0%
20 personnel	0.0%	−4.5%	4.5%
Other personnel	0.9%	−0.2%	1.1%

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

San Francisco 49ers · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	395
21 personnel → Under Center	260
21 personnel → Shotgun	164
11 personnel → Under Center	108
12 personnel → Under Center	88
22 personnel → Under Center	67
12 personnel → Shotgun	35
22 personnel → Shotgun	20
21 personnel → Pistol	14
Other → Under Center	9
11 personnel → Pistol	7
12 personnel → Pistol	3
22 personnel → Pistol	2
Other → Shotgun	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	511
Under Center → Run	354
Under Center → Pass	178
Shotgun → Run	105
Pistol → Run	17
Pistol → Pass	9
Unknown → Run	1
Pass → Failure	337
Run → Failure	278
Pass → Success	263
Run → Success	162
Pass → Explosive	98
Run → Explosive	37

New England Patriots · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	377
21 personnel → I_Form	182
11 personnel → Singleback	134
12 personnel → Singleback	98
12 personnel → Shotgun	71
11 personnel → Empty	69
22 personnel → I_Form	43
20 personnel → Shotgun	32
21 personnel → Shotgun	29
21 personnel → Empty	26
22 personnel → Jumbo	22
11 personnel → Pistol	21
10 personnel → Shotgun	20
21 personnel → Singleback	20
12 personnel → Empty	18
20 personnel → I_Form	15
22 personnel → Singleback	14
10 personnel → Empty	13
Other → Jumbo	11
20 personnel → Empty	7
11 personnel → Unknown	5
21 personnel → Unknown	5
10 personnel → Singleback	4
11 personnel → I_Form	3
12 personnel → Unknown	3
20 personnel → Singleback	3
21 personnel → Jumbo	3
Other → Empty	3
11 personnel → Other	2
12 personnel → Pistol	2
10 personnel → Unknown	1
12 personnel → I_Form	1
21 personnel → Pistol	1
22 personnel → Unknown	1
Unknown → Empty	1
Shotgun → Pass	420
I_Form → Run	197
Singleback → Run	152
Empty → Pass	136
Singleback → Pass	121
Shotgun → Run	109
I_Form → Pass	47
Jumbo → Run	33
Pistol → Pass	12
Pistol → Run	12
Unknown → Run	8
Unknown → Pass	7
Jumbo → Pass	3
Other → Run	2
Empty → Run	1
Pass → Failure	384
Run → Failure	319
Pass → Success	238
Run → Success	153
Pass → Explosive	124
Run → Explosive	42