HERDNATION.COM New Player and Team Analytics (Free Content)

[Chris McLaughlin]

I'm BEYOND pumped to announce that the Rivals network has teamed up with Pro Football Focus, the go-to site for player grades and advanced analytics in both college football and the NFL. We will incorporate PFF data into stories regularly going forward, and one thing you can look forward to each week is a grade for all Marshall players from the previous game as well as snap counts.

Please give this a read and provide your feedback. The types of stories and analysis I can provide to you with this service are almost unlimited. FCS schools are not included in the data set so I will not be able to produce a preview story this week, but starting next week I will include a story focusing on our opponents from a PFF POV.

Miami (OH) Snap Counts and Individual Grades

Moving forward this data will only be available to Old Fairfield members. If you're interested in joining OF you can sign up here: https://marshall.rivals.com/subscriptions/new

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

Here's a video explaining PFF's grading system:

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

I'll aggregate totals into a spreadsheet every week for easy comparison, but for week one here's overall team grades:

Overall Offense: 72.4

Passing Game: 68.0

Pass blocking: 52.1

Running Game: 74.0

Run Blocking: 63.6

Overall Defense: 63.3

Run Defense: 67.9

Tackling: 77.3

Pass Rush: 56.0

Pass Coverage: 64.6

Overall Special Teams: 63.4

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

Bump.