03-18-2023, 08:11 PM
No. They have unqualified people who are barely trained making subjective calls with little context. It’s a pseudo science that is very marketable to fans because they don’t know better but has no value to the people actually in the league (grades that is).
Both PFF and Next Gen however very advanced stats that the general public doesn’t have access to that are not as subjective that teams do use for their own scouting reports. Those are the things that actually have value not the grades. It’s actually funny you hear stories of agents trying to use PFF during negotiations and teams literally laughing at them and showing them where PFF graded them well and showing them what they were supposed to be doing on the play being something completely different.
By the way, among many issues with their grading is that there are certain biases that occur in the grading that can’t be removed. You will often see two players make the same play and if they player is a big name they will get the benefit of the doubt on the play versus a non name guy won’t. The bias is not intentional but there are certain things you can’t turn off and when the scoring is subjective it’s going to occur. That tends to result in people with established names being graded better even when they have bad years.
Both PFF and Next Gen however very advanced stats that the general public doesn’t have access to that are not as subjective that teams do use for their own scouting reports. Those are the things that actually have value not the grades. It’s actually funny you hear stories of agents trying to use PFF during negotiations and teams literally laughing at them and showing them where PFF graded them well and showing them what they were supposed to be doing on the play being something completely different.
By the way, among many issues with their grading is that there are certain biases that occur in the grading that can’t be removed. You will often see two players make the same play and if they player is a big name they will get the benefit of the doubt on the play versus a non name guy won’t. The bias is not intentional but there are certain things you can’t turn off and when the scoring is subjective it’s going to occur. That tends to result in people with established names being graded better even when they have bad years.
