Player Bias

[BengalChris]

(08-14-2019, 12:36 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I've actually taken the time to go read through every Play-by-Play of every game Ross played in last year via Pro Football Reference.
I was able to collect the following information....

John Ross receptions by game:

Week 1 – 1 (3 yds)
Week 2 –  1 (8 yds)
Week 3 – 3 (9 yds, 4 yds, 3 yds)
Week 4 – 2 (39 yds, 13 yds)
Week 7 – 0
Week 9 – 2 (2 yds, 37 yds)
Week 10 – 2 (22 yds, 5 yds)
Week 11 – 3 (17 yds, 2 yds, 12 yds)
Week 12 – 2 (11 yds, 2 yds)
Week 13 – 2 (5 yds, 6 yds)
Week 14 – 1 (6 yds)
Week 15 – 1 (3 yds)
Week 16 – 1 (1 yd)
 
Receptions by distance:
15 or less yards (short) = 17
16+ yards (deep) = 4

Misses by distance:

Short = 17
Deep = 20
 
Total targets by distance:
Short = 34 (50% completion percentage)
Deep = 24 (20% completion percentage)

As we can see, Ross had much better success targeted shorter than he did when targeted deeper, although the completion percentage isn't great for "short" targets either.
Given the amount of time it took to collect this data, I don't really want to do the same for the other receivers, but I'd expect Ross led the team in deep targets with 24.

In other words, 2018 was an improvement over his 2017 stats, which were 0 catch percentage and 1 fumble in 3 games.

He's still miles from what a top 10 pick should do for the team.