The PFF Crackpipe

[Chris_Sanders]

I figure PFF continues to be hilariously inaccurate so lets track it.

Here is how PFF ranks the teams right now.

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[Totally_Red]

Well you have to factor in that the Boys play in the incredibly tough NFC East.

 

[Shane]

Seriously who the hell is Chris Collinsworth hiring over there?

 

[TRW]

PrettyFunnyFools. If I'm not mistaken 2 of the teams they rank ahead of the Cards LOST to them? Not sure but I seem to recall that.

 

[CardsSunsDbacks]

Cleveland being 2nd completely invalidates the whole thing...

 

[Shane]

PrettyFunnyFools. If I'm not mistaken 2 of the teams they rank ahead of the Cards LOST to them? Not sure but I seem to recall that.

Convincingly

 

[Shane]

Cleveland being 2nd completely invalidates the whole thing...

Anyone being above the Cardinals invalidates the whole thing

 

[CardsSunsDbacks]

Anyone being above the Cardinals invalidates the whole thing

At least there are arguments for the other teams, but Cleveland is 4-3 AND got their ass kicked by the Cards.

 

[slanidrac16]

I put no credence to anything PFF says…..good or bad….nothing.

 

[ajcardfan]

The Browns are #2?

 

[SunsTzu]

The Browns are #2?

Seems on brand, they played like #2 when the Cards faced them.

 

[Russ Smith]

Anyone being above the Cardinals invalidates the whole thing

You can make arguments against us but if they're using metrics or stats it makes no sense. The Cards have the largest point differential in the whole league, 111 points, second is Buffalo at 105 but they have 2 losses. Dallas has only 1 loss but their point differential is 59 in 6 games so they not only have a loss we don't have their wins are by a smaller margin. If you want to rank a 1 loss team it should be the Bucs who gave Dallas their only loss. Beat the Rams head to head in their stadium, beat the Browns with multiple starters and coaches out. We're not going unbeaten and I can certainly understand a claim we might not be the best team but PFF always claims they use metrics to rank this stuff so this makes no actual sense. Dallas their 2 best wins, the Chargers and the Pats, are those better wins than us beating Titans, Rams and Browns?

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Well you have to factor in that the Boys play in the incredibly tough NFC East.

I am more looking at the Browns at 2, who we just destroyed at home.

 

[ajcardfan]

I am more looking at the Browns at 2, who we just destroyed at home.

That has to be some kind of mistake and the Bengals are supposed to be there. Right?

 

[SoonerLou]

TBF
All four teams ranked ahead of us have much higher graded Olines (Browns didnt have them or Chubb when we played) I think thats why their grades are higher.

Seriously who the hell is Chris Collinsworth hiring over there?

I mean it looks bad. However, if Im reading it correctly its saying their "players" are playing at a higher level right? When factoring in coaching, our stars making big plays at the right time,etc we're still the best "team"

Again I could be totally looking at this wrong.

 

[kerouac9]

People seem to always need to be reminded that PFF grades are neither a stat nor a metric. They're a summary of opinion-based grades.

PFF has cornered the market on cheap metrics (for now -- I think that whoever owns and runs the data for NextGen Stats will put this side of their house out of business). That's why many teams buy data from PFF -- then they don't have to pay $25k to a handful of Quality Control Assistants to count WRs on 3rd and 6 in the past 6 games (or whatever).

 

[Chris_Sanders]

People seem to always need to be reminded that PFF grades are neither a stat nor a metric. They're a summary of opinion-based grades.

PFF has cornered the market on cheap metrics (for now -- I think that whoever owns and runs the data for NextGen Stats will put this side of their house out of business). That's why many teams buy data from PFF -- then they don't have to pay $25k to a handful of Quality Control Assistants to count WRs on 3rd and 6 in the past 6 games (or whatever).

Looking at those rankings it is clear it is opinion based

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Looking at those rankings it is clear it is poor opinions based

FTFY

 

[GatorAZ]

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[Krangodnzr]

I still look at PFF for player grades, but it's obvious that their methodology is pretty wacky.

If a player has a 48 grade for the year, he's probably been pretty bad regardless of who is grading.

 

[splitsecond]

Seriously who the hell is Chris Collinsworth hiring over there?

Exactly who he wants, judging by who is ranked #1.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Seems on brand, they played like #2 when the Cards faced them.

Uniform Color appropriate.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

PFF’s grading/ranking algorithm was formulated for clickbait.

 

[football karma]

i used to do a lot of financial modeling in a past work life

when the model spit out something whacky -- it was time to question the model