The Next Gen Stats Analytics Team Professional football is constantly evolving. An ongoing chess match between offensive and defensive play callers brings different schemes into and out of fashion, and as this happens, the profiles of players coming into the league morph, reflecting change...
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With this objective in mind, ESPN's Stats & Information Group has created an NFL version of its Football Power Index, or FPI for short. There are a number of other NFL power ratings out there -- FiveThirtyEight (Elo Ratings), Pro Football Reference (SRS), Jeff Sagarin and others have ...
Referee style one week may hide a team's weakness (defensive backs), but a different official who leans heavily on calling pass interference will compound that weakness the next week. Same team. Different outcomes. Throughout this 2024 NFL season, we'll help to identify important trends and ...
Note: We used the positions listed by Pro Football Reference. The designation of "DL" in the 2021 NFL Draft, which inherently limits how long of a career a "defensive lineman" could have, whereas previous drafts almost exclusively listed more specific positions, such as "DE" for defe...
Additionally, ESPN Stats & Information provides a big stat to know and abettingnugget for each contest, and ourFootball Power Index(FPI) goes inside the numbers with a game projection. Analytics writer Seth Walder picks out each matchup's biggest X factor, Matt Bow...
I wanted to use real world data, so I saved 20 years of team stats from Pro Football Reference as CSV files. As described in the article, I collected the various stats and then normalized the team stats in each year by comparing each stat to the league average. The result is a z ...
Defensive baseball stats have evolved significantly in the generation since RF was invented, and the concepts Bill James set forth underlie each new development. Applications So what can TF tell us now? The other night I came across a post at Pro Football Talk that ranked the free agent LBs...