03-12-2022, 02:55 PM
(03-12-2022, 02:49 PM)ochocincos Wrote: This morning, Joe Goodberry was responding to Jake Liscow's thoughts about PFF grades being used to determine a good or bad player.
He did mention that the grades that PFF gives don't always align with what he sees when he watches tape.
With that said, here's what he ultimately feels for whether PFF grades are worthwhile or not...
And I did two years of grading Bengals players on every snap and the difference between what I saw and what PFF saw was ultimately negligible and I stopped doing it myself.
— Goodberry (@JoeGoodberry) March 12, 2022
So basically, Joe felt that while PFF wasn't perfect, it was extremely close to what he saw when he was analyzing players on snaps so much so that he stopped putting all the effort in to watch all that tape.
He's watched far more tape than I ever have or would care to, so if he says the difference between PFF's grades and what he sees when he watches is negligible, I'm going to trust that PFF really isn't that far off their assessments of players.
Good catch. I think the one position that may be the most difficult to grade is free safety. There are so many schemes with receiver hand offs or deep responsibilities vs short, half vs thirds, then you throw in covering for CBs or SSs getting beat. Just seems it would be so hard to grade.
