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It’s by no means too early to begin making ready for subsequent season, and for PFF, which means methods to enhance PFF Premium Stats.
One thrilling choice is to introduce extra knowledge. To search out out which stats resonate most with you, we’ll offer choose knowledge exterior of Premium Stats to see what grabs your curiosity.
Over current weeks, we now have offered a metric referred to as “Superior Protection Grade,” which provides much more context to PFF’s conventional protection grade.
What’s Superior Protection Grade?
Superior protection grade makes use of machine studying to map the separation allowed on a play to the anticipated PFF protection grade the participant would have earned had they been focused. This method additionally components within the issue of the task and scenario when making that evaluation.
The variables thought of for task and scenario embrace play place, participant task inside protection, total protection scheme, security rotation, press protection, route depth and play motion.
Going old-fashioned, it is a +/- grading system, although 0 would not essentially symbolize anticipated or common outcomes.
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