03-12-2022, 06:03 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.
It is far off, been told it by multiple people tied to the NFL. One said agents are learning they will get laughed out of the room if the role in and quote PFF numbers when negotiating deals. Their advanced stats are very good, their grading does not align well at all with how teams tend to view a players performance often times. Some positions are better than others though, so it’s kind of just a matter of context.
