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Can you imagine being Allen last night?
BullBuchanan replied to whorlnut's topic in The Stadium Wall
If It wasn't "I need to play as good as these guys if I want to win a Super Bowl", then it isn't worth wondering about. -
Brick-By-Brick, the NFL Losing Me As A Fan
BullBuchanan replied to pocoboy's topic in The Stadium Wall
way to stick it to 'em. -
Brick-By-Brick, the NFL Losing Me As A Fan
BullBuchanan replied to pocoboy's topic in The Stadium Wall
Man, if that doesn't paint a picture clear as a summer's day. Oof. -
Rihanna-A boring halftime performance
BullBuchanan replied to Billsfan1972's topic in The Stadium Wall
I can't stand pop music and I thought it was a very good performance with nice choreographyby Super Bowl standards. -
How do the Bills win the Super Bowl next year?
BullBuchanan replied to QB Bills's topic in The Stadium Wall
Simple - Draft Ja'Marr Chase, Micah Parsons, and Tristan Wirfs -
Daboll/Hodgins - Does their success bother you?
BullBuchanan replied to Virgil's topic in The Stadium Wall
That was never, ever going to happen and it shouldn't unless your owner is Jerry Jones. -
Daboll/Hodgins - Does their success bother you?
BullBuchanan replied to Virgil's topic in The Stadium Wall
What should they have done? -
Daboll/Hodgins - Does their success bother you?
BullBuchanan replied to Virgil's topic in The Stadium Wall
No. His peak is likely a #4 WR. If we could have him back right now, he wouldn't make the 53 next season. He was in our system for 3 years, so it's unlikely we missed anything. He had a volume-based moment in the sun and I'm happy for the kid. I'm not going to be drafting him in fantasy next year though. -
Apparently Vegas doesn't agree the Bills are done...
BullBuchanan replied to eball's topic in The Stadium Wall
Yea, but wait till they factor in the Chad Hall departure. -
100% guaranteed they aren't ever getting better after 5 years of experience. This is the best he will ever be. From here injury risk goes up and athleticism goes down. If he was a smarter/more instinctual player that would carry his prime out longer and delay his decline, but those traits aren't a plus for him. This is why
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I couldn't . The All pro playing next to this 17 year old makes $10m
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Major Sports Alignment and Playoff Qualifying
BullBuchanan replied to Mike in Horseheads's topic in The Stadium Wall
Yes. Every team has a chance to win their division. Just because you're a 12-5 team, it doesn't mean you're better than a 9-8 team. All it means is that you got more wins and the reasons for that could be extensive. We all saw that this year. It was just as dumb of an argument when the Bengals cried about it as it is now. At that point you might as well banish conferences and divisions and just have one league. Of course then every team would have to play each other, you'd have to get rid of bye weeks and everyone would have to play at a neutral site equidistant from every other team just to make it totally fair. There are a ton of dynamics that make records what they are, and the NFL is as fair as anyone. The team that deserves to win the super bowl almost always does. The rest is just window dressing. -
Nobody tell PFR. 6. OL Spencer Brown (Photo by Bryan M. Bennett/Getty Images) Overall grade: 53.4 NFL positional ranking: 76th of 84 qualifying https://billswire.usatoday.com/lists/pro-football-focus-buffalo-bills-rodger-saffold-spencer-brown/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0akCLnbsphAyZ7kwevDYtCG9C4NxdkVqOqeBBuG1LmwY7SkOjX7H7n7EM vs Tristan Wirfs, 2nd Team all pro and Pro Bowler
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Major Sports Alignment and Playoff Qualifying
BullBuchanan replied to Mike in Horseheads's topic in The Stadium Wall
It happened for the 4th time ever this year. It doesn't need to be a reason to change everything. If the Bucs hadn't made it, the Lions would have gotten in. No one cares, not even Detroit. -
No, i didn't complain about that. I noted the overall value of an all pro being the same as a player who is one of the worst players in the league.
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PFF's rating would be far better than attempting to asses draft pick performance based on overall team performance as AV appears to be doing. That at least grades a player independently. AV may actually be a useful counter metric as it tells you what players performed on strong teams so a player with a high PFF and a low AV may be better than one with a High/High With respect to journalists using these values, they aren't statisticians. As I mentioned, you're free to create whatever model you want comprised of whatever metrics you deem relevant, but it's the questions you ask when creating it and the insights you glean from it that matter and come under scrutiny. In this case, I think the formula for AV isn't telling you which players performed the best, so it isn't a useful metric when considering who had a strong draft.
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Which is a metric you invented right? You're using this definition to determine what players had good seasons vs poor ones using AV "Offense Every team gets this many points to divvy up among its offensive players: team_offense_points = 100 * (team offensive points per drive) / (league average offensive points per drive), where offensive points per drive = (7*(rushTD+passTD) + 3*FG) / (rushTD + passTD + turnovers + punts + FGA) Offensive line As a unit, the offensive line for a given team will share this many points: team_points_for_o_line = 5 / 11 * team_offense_points For each offensive lineman (and fullback and tight end), we define: individual_points = [(games played) + 5*(games started)*(pos_multiplier)] * (all_pro_multiplier), where pos_multiplier = 1.2 for tackles, 1.0 for guards and centers, 0.3 for fullbacks, and 0.2 for tight ends, and all_pro_multiplier = 1.9 for first-team AP all-pro, 1.6 for second-team AP all-pro, and 1.3 for a pro bowler who was not first- or second-team all-pro. [NOTE: all_pro_multiplier is for tackles, guards, and centers only, not fullbacks or tight ends.] Finally, each individual player receives this many points: approx_value = (individual_points) / (sum of individual_points for all players on team) * (team_points_for_o_line)" Did you actually read that when you came up with this and decided it was viable? John Miller's second season had a 9 - which is better than all of Wyatt teller's years but 1 where he had 10. A model that grades like that can't be relied upon as an indicator of success. it's MASSIVELY skewed in favor of offensive points scored rather than individual contribution. Spencer Brown registered a 9 this year, and I think we can all agree he's atrocious. that score of 9 would have outperformed 7 of Orlando Pace's seasons.
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I understand it just fine. I'm using the weighted AV. Using AV of the player's rookie year alone would be a far worse way to judge the performance of a draft. The chiefs would get a 0 for Mahomes in 2017 despite drafting the best QB in 20 years
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the wAV of guard John Miller is 31 and the guard Wyatt Teller has a wAV of 29 the wAV of WR Sammy Watkins is 48 and the wAV of WR Justin Jefferson is 39 I'd say the model is flawed to everyone who has ever watched football. Great question. A model needs to start with questions, and you asked some good ones while calculating your formula but you need to backtest it to be sure that it gives accurate results. The more accurate you try to be, the less reliable it's likely to be, so you need a reliable grade of performance first and foremost. There are multiple other problems that need to be solved for. An example of some: If you're weighting against draft position, you need to consider the difference of value between pick value within a round as the #1 overall pick is much different than the #32 pick and they don't average out over time since it's based on performance, not chance. You should really be grading performance against that position int he draft, but statistical significance will be impossible to obtain since there haven't been enough #1 picks, and you'd have to grade performance for all players ever at that slot, and there may be position bias. If you're grading performance, you need to make sure you're grading performance against games played, expected games played and role. If you drafted Breece Hall and he was an all pro for half the season and then went down due to injury, you need to be careful about how that compares to a guy that played all 16 games but was less impressive. Likewise if a DB was drafted in the 6th round but was a standout special teamer, you need to ensure he ranks comparably against a player who played a lot more downs in a DB role but didn't perform well.
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no, I read it. Your model is flawed because it's based on a known bad value. This doesn't work. It's definitely an admirable attempt, but the underlying data isn't any good.| "What I did was found the average value for a player drafted in each round (1-7) in each year (2017-2019) and the calculated what I am calling the Net Drafted Accumulated Value (NETDrAV) for each pick in each round. I only compared each draft to itself. I then found the Total Net Drafted Accumulated Value (TOT_NETDrAV) for each team in each draft and ranked them against each other. Rather than just looking at how much raw value the Bills brought in as compared to the 31 other teams, this gives an idea of how much extra value they extracted in each round as compared to the 31 other teams in the league. TOT_NETDrAV is the AV that a team has benefitted from directly on their team as compared to players and teams in their draft class. TOT_NETCarAV is just the pure amount of value that players drafted by a given team have produced as compared to players and teams in their draft class."
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Yes, but you understand that are an infinite number of ways you could try to evaluate success and it doesn't mean that any of those models have to accurately do so, right? This model ranks Wyatt Teller as a 5th round pick that has 2 2nd team all pros and 2 pro bowls as a 29 which is equal to how they rank Ed Oliver as a 9th overall pick. Cody Ford is a 15 and Dawson Knox is a 16... John Miller (remember him?) is a 31. If that doesn't make you reconsider treating this in a HIGHLY skeptical manner, I can't help you.