Stories from Advanced NFL Stats
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Upgrades to the Team Stat Visualizations
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 14, 2011
If you've been visiting the team stat visualizations you've certainly noticed some significant additions and changes in recent days. First, due to popular demand, I've added previous seasons. Now you can use the slider bar at the top left to… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Green Bay Packers
- NFL
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WP: London Fletcher--Tackle Machine
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 14, 2011
Fletcher, however, accounts for almost 17 percent of the Redskins' tackles. That's good for a TF of 1.54, (calculated by dividing his 17 percent by the average linebacker's 11 percent). Fletcher's 1.54 is the best of his 14-year career and… Full Story »
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Yates Leads The Comeback Charge For Houston
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 14, 2011
As has already been covered here, Week 14 was the week of the comeback for 2011. Although Matt Prater's Denver Broncos will get much of the spotlight among the AFC comeback teams, it was the Houston Texans' last-drive comeback victory against the Cincinnati Bengals which… Full Story »
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Team Rankings: Week Fifteen
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 13, 2011
Despite putting up a mere 14 points on the lowly Cleveland Browns, the Pittsburgh Steelers gained ground on the Texans in the pursuit of our top ranking heading into the playoffs. The Texans dropped a full .03 GWP this week… Full Story »
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Tebow by Quarter
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 12, 2011
By request, here is how Denver quarterback Tim Tebow's performance breaks down by quarter. It's nothing short of amazing. He's a very poor performer until halftime, at which point he turns into a mediocre player. But then, in the fourth… Full Story »
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Biggest Comeback Week
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 12, 2011
ESPN's stat-savvy NFC-West blogger Mike Sando points out that this past week was the first in NFL history that produced 5 comebacks of 12 or more points, which doesn't even consider the 10-point comeback win by the Denver Tebows. It was a fun weekend in the NFL, no doubt, and there's still one game to go. But have there been other weekends with even… Full Story »
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Lions Take The Field Goal
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 11, 2011
Despite all the Tebow-madness, there were quite a few other games decided in the waning seconds. With 0:26 left in the game, Joe Webb and the Vikings were faced with a 4th-and-6 from the Detroit 12, down 6. If the Vikings were only down 3, this… Full Story »
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Meet an Offensive Line: New Orleans Saints
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 10, 2011
Anyone who's anyone knows that the peak hours for driving internet traffic are the late-afternoon ones on a December Saturday -- which is why, this late Saturday afternoon, Advanced NFL Stats presents the second installment of our acclaimed series Meet… Full Story »
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WP: Better Play Calling with Twister
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 8, 2011
The laws of zero-sum game theory say that there are only two requirements for optimizing payoffs. First, plays should be called relative to their expected effectiveness. Offenses should proportionately favor their own strengths relative to its opposition's weaknesses. And second, play calls should be unpredictably random. There could be no play caller in the league as unpredictable as a spinner from the game Twister. As silly as it sounds, whenever people are making decisions, they can't help but create predictable patterns -… Full Story »
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Topics:
- NFL
- Tim Tebow
- Wes Welker
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Playoff Probabilities: Week 14
Advanced NFL Stats &bull Dec 8, 2011
This week's edition of playoff probabilities debuts new tables indicating each team's probability of advancing to a given round of the playoffs. As always, these numbers come courtesy of Chris Cox at NFL-forecast.com and are generated with the help of his NFL-Forecast software app, which uses the win probabilities generated by the team efficiency model to simulate the NFL season 5,000 times. And if you… Full Story »
