Free agency can be a very exciting time for NFL fans; their teams get to add impact talent to their roster. However, are they receiving what they believe to be getting? After all, since these players are in great demand, their asking prices tend to be higher than it should be, and in most cases,…
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Fine-Tuning Wins Above Replacement To Better Capture an NFL Player’s $/Year Value
Whereas baseball is filled with advanced statistics, other sports, particularly football, have lagged behind. For analysis, the common fan too often turns to unstable, flawed statistics such as yards gained/allowed, turnovers, and touchdowns, and, as a result, NFL players tend to be more polarizing than MLB players- analysts are using different variables to compare…
Ranking The Top 116 Safeties From a Mathematical Perspective
We have officially made it! For the last month, the numbers have given us an idea of who the top players are at every position, and today, we’ll finish up the series by looking at the top safeties in the NFL. Since we’re combining rangy free safeties with versatile chess-pieces, there are a lot of…
NFL Free Agency Recap/Analysis: NFC
We are two weeks removed from the beginning of the legal tampering period, and for the most part, NFL free agency has been settled. Sure, there are still some impact veterans on the open market, but most teams have already spent a large amount of their cap space, and there is no way to know…
NFL Free Agency Tracker: Analyzing Every Move Made On Day Two of Legal Tampering Period
Even after a very active first day of free-agency signings and trades on the first day, there should be plenty of activity today, especially with the quarterback market. We already know Tom Brady is leaving the Patriots, but where will he and Phillip Rivers land? Let’s analyze every move (major or minor) made today, Tuesday…
NFL Free Agency Preview: NFC West
We have one more division to go before we are done with our NFL free agency previews, and it’s the NFC West. This division has an obvious top dog in the Rams, but both the Seahawks and 49ers are teams to watch out for in free agency. Meanwhile, the Cardinals should also be interesting; they’ll…
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