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(02-24-2022, 04:30 PM)Au165 Wrote: That’s because PFF bends the truth on their every player every play claim, especially when it comes to coverage, but also is loose at times at who is qualified to grade things. When I talk to really smart football minds it’s people who’ve been tied to the NFL who watch a lot of tape from a team perspective. I think PFF is a great place for advanced stats but grades you must be VERY VERY careful with. I once talked to a scout who told a story about their grades on a player in a game who was graded really high by PFF was trash because he wasn’t doing what they asked him to do and he fluked into a couple plays because the QB made some dumb decisions.

When people say every team uses PFF it’s a bit misleading, every team uses their advanced stats basically none of them use their grades that fans like to quote.

I think we all know that an analyst (PFF or otherwise) doesn't 100% know what a player is assigned to do, but they give their best guess.

I guess a fair question though is let's say a player does exactly what they were assigned to do, but it still results in a negative result.
Or on the flip side, they can't/don't do what they're assigned to do, but it results in a positive play.
How should that be assessed or who should be assessed?

Clearly people (teams and fans) put value into PFF if they're making money and growing the company, so they must be doing something well.

EDIT - You also talk about teams caring about their advanced stats, but that's locked behind their highest-tiered paywall. Since most fans don't want to pay for a stat service, they only get access to the cheaper/free tiers, which is primarily the player grades. And I think fans like the grades a lot because it gives them a comparable metric about whether a player is good/bad and also better/worse than someone else (accurate or not).