PFF reinforces its reputation as a clown show
- Thread starter VeloClone
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Not saying you're wrong. But we quoted PFF religiously when it was pumping David Montgomery when national media didn't......FWIW
PFF Employee #1: Hey I have an idea.
PFF Employee #2: What's that?
#1: What if we put...
#2: No......
PFF Employee #2: What's that?
#1: What if we put...
#2: No......
Just take a deep breath and note that PFF all conference teams are probably based on their overall grades and grades are not a cumulative stat, they're the grade on a player's average play.
Breece led the league in rushing but amongst the 7 players with 1000 yards he was only tied for 4th in yards per attempt.
Breece led the league in rushing but amongst the 7 players with 1000 yards he was only tied for 4th in yards per attempt.
Theyre not a legitimate analytics site so just ignore them and theyll go away. They do this for attention and notoriety. The problem is when thousands of fans retweet their outrage, theyre getting exactly what they want
I wouldn't even put Deuce in the top half of the conference for running backs. Hall, Brown, Brooks, Smith, Robinson and I might even put Warren ahead of him. Facing those guys scares me a lot more than Deuce Vaughn.
Deuce is a good RB. Nobody here is arguing that he isn't. I think he's a good kid and a good RB. But the fact that Bijon and Deuce are ahead of Breece simply causes others outside of the conference to ridicule the B12 worse than they already do.
They're not analytics in the usual sense though. They are not trying to be analytics. PFF is strictly film based. They're a useful site to pair with traditional and modern analytics to help answer "is this player good? great? bad?"
Breece Hall has poops bigger than deuce vaughn.
this is the first i've heard of CF folks hating on PFF. we all know that some numbers don't tell the whole story. Deuce had an efficient season, and Breece had a couple of "clunkers" towards the end that hurt him statistically. Breece has had plenty of high praise from PFF in the past, so i find it hard to believe they have any bias against him. they have also rated Kolar and Rose highly in the recent past, not to mention Montgomery.
they do create some stats from film that aren't captured live in-game by sports statisticians, and then analyze those stats, but i don't think it's as arbitrary as you are out to make it.
EDIT: scratch my last point, you clarified below
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My point wasn't clearly stated. They aren't analyzing stats like other composites do. They are analyzing the players individual plays during the game, and the stats generated from that are what is analyzed. Wasn't meaning to denigrate.
