Player Bias

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(08-09-2019, 09:15 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Erickson out performed Ross by quite a bit last year but Ross was handed the position in fornt of him.  Alex had a 69% catch rate and averaged 5.8 yards per target compared to Ross's 36% and 3.6.  Ross played close to twice as many snaps as Erickson (602 to 364) and had ONE more reception.

Meanwhile Hopkins only played 30 more snaps than Price but gave up twice as many sacks (3.0 to 1.5)

Ross had a 72.73% red zone catch rate, while Erickson only managed 33.33% to go with that massive gap in TD's.  Ross was also primarily used between the 20's to cut the top off the defense to create room for guys to work underneath and Erickson can't be used in that fashion effectively.  Finally, people dog Ross for his catch rate, but fail to take into account that most of his targets between the 20's were on fly routes.  I haven't seen the 2018 data yet, but in 2017 the fly route only had a 25% success rate league wide.  Route selection makes a huge difference in catch %.

Hopkins gave up 3.5 sacks last year, but lined up all over the OL, not just C.  That's an apples to oranges comparison.