Why the Safeties Play So Loose

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(12-07-2023, 03:15 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I mostly agree with the general point you're making, but please use Missed Tackle % rather than just accumulation. Different safeties have different responsibilities, and different years have different trends.

Guy A might miss 8 tackles and Guy B might miss 10 tackles, but if Guy A made 40 tackles and Guy B made 80 tackles, Guy B is a much better tackler than Guy A (though I guess in this random example both are very bad).

You saying 15 games 2 starts for Daxton last year and putting 1 missed tackle is vastly misleading because he only made 16 tackles all year, which makes any attempts at comparing with that specific year pointless. Bates had over 100 tackles each of his first 3 years.

Dax 
2023: 8.0% missed tackle

Bates 
2018: 8.3%
2019: 14.5%
2020: 12.8%
2021: 7.4%
2022: 9.0%
2023: 8.0%

Still a better tackler than Bates, but also a more honest comparison.

Basically, you just went and typed up a bunch of shit to say the exact same thing that I said. Except that you were being misleading by leaving out that 1 missed tackle and 16 tackles is a 5.9% missed tackle rate.