As you may know from reading my past blog posts, I love me some stats. I don’t think they’re the be-all and end-all when it comes to football, but I do think they are a useful tool to use when analyzing a team, a unit, or a player. Perhaps that’s why I enjoy following sites like Pro Football Focus (PFF) and Football Outsiders (FO).
These two groups of data crunchers put a lot of time and critical thought into representing the performance of players and teams in the form of numbers. Through careful observation and grading of every play of every football game of the year, these statisticians are able to eventually tell us which team’s offense is performing the best based on their results and the strength of the defenses they’ve played. Or they can present a numerical “grade” for an individual player for something like “pass blocking efficiency.”
Like I said before, they provide a great tool for professional football analysis. We can use the information to either support what we think...
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PLAYERS:
Ted Thompson,
A.J. Hawk,
Aaron Rodgers,
Erik Walden,
B.J. Raji,
Ryan Pickett,
Clay Matthews,
James Starks,
Jordy Nelson,
Victor Cruz,
Desmond Bishop
TEAMS: Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, Florida State Seminoles
TEAMS: Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, Florida State Seminoles
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