03-12-2022, 11:13 PM
(03-12-2022, 10:30 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Better from a fan being able to try to determine good or bad.
No fan is ever going to be 100% right without knowing exactly what the play call was, which no one ever will.
PFF is literally the equivalent of a fan trying to determine tape, but they're given a set of guidelines/training of what to look for.
Since I am not a part of the team, I need something to help me determine if a player is potentially doing good or bad.
Alternatively, I could just not bother trying to determine that and just go with the flow since I'm not on the team and a coach, but if I did that, I probably wouldn't waste my time with a message board. I'd just be DennyG2 with the blind optimism/homerism
But see, that’s kind of the problem. People believe it does in fact represent if someone is good or bad, so much so they question coaches, GMs, teams based on these ratings that we have both accepted aren’t actually accurate, simply more accurate than average fans deciding. I guess a fair way to view it would be when debating with other people I guess go for it, when trying to second guess people in the NFL it’s worthless.
When people say things like, xyz sucks see his PFF grade why is coach playing him? He must be an idiot. That false empowerment of fans is literally why NFL people tend to hate PFF because it falsely makes fans think they have an idea of who is good or bad.
I mean this doesn’t even get into the bias that exists, which does in most things, when dealing with name players. Since it is humans doing the scoring, even with guidance, you have bias towards people based on preconceived notions. Good players get more benefit of doubt and bad players get far less which ends up just furthering confirmation bias.
