Originally posted by thl408:
Thanks for sharing. Keep it coming as the season progresses please. Does this rating system take into account quality of competition? For example, pancaking Haloti Ngata would weigh more than successfully blocking some crappy DT.
I think the ypc stats for running at certain gaps is interesting. Though the successful YPC average of running behind Right guard may be due to pulling the left guard through the hole. None of 49er ratings are really a surprise except Aldon being rated higher than Brooks and Justin being iffy versus the run so far this season. If PFF doesn't use a quality of competition weighing system it would help Aldon look good since he's feasted on backup LTs versus GB and SEA. The unbalanced schedule means quality of competition would add a lot more fairness to the grading scale IMO.
It certainly isn't a perfect system by any means but it does help paint a picture (fairly accurate). You alluded to Justin Smith playing "meh." I'm not sure how Aldon is ranked so high at this juncture to be honest. Teams know that the best way to alleviate the pass rush is to run right at the Smith's and that works very effectively (they double Brooks on the front side). Fangio isn't smart enough to move Justin or Aldon around all over the place and create mismatches...it's straight up as always; Justin plays RDE and Aldon plays the WILL. Every now and again Justin will slip inside to DT or Aldon and Brooks will switch sides but I'm guessing 90% of the snaps are straight up. Look how the Texans move Watts all over the place to exloit mismatches and create confusion. You can move Aldon, Brooks, Willis and Bowman ANYWHERE to create monster mismatchess as well and scheme confusion for the OL and QB. But...no. We are, by far, THE most vanilla 3-4 ever.
[ Edited by NCommand on Oct 4, 2013 at 7:24 AM ]