https://www.yahoo.com/sports/dexter-lawrence-leonard-williams-were-160026500.html
The Good .....
Lawrence - 86.6
Williams - 82.4
Sterling Shepard - 78.4
Dan Jones - 75.5
The bad ....
Sure Evan Engram deserves a kick-in-the-pants for dropping that crucial pass gets a 51.7. But the then real dogs ....
The Ugly ....
Devonte Freeman - 33.1
Andrew Thomas 56.0 and a dismal 32.5 in pass pro (wonder how Peart graded ?)
Ryan Lewis - 30.0 (In my opinion the biggest reason we lost the game); stunk all night
Then there's Peppers (no grade, but how does he let that 5'6" midget [Boston Scott] beat him on the backbreaker TD ?); when's McKinney coming back ?
As many do, here, I think they had a decent evaluation of the game.
They are practically as useful as Madden ratings.
LOL!!!
Cha-ching!!!
I had to take a double take.....couldn't believe how bad that was.....
Yes indeed and what are the qualifications of the people doing the rating? I bet most of them never played or coached football at any level.
All 22 films becoming available to everyone as created a huge cottage industry of NFL quacks
I certainly don’t obsess over PFF ratings and don’t rely on them except in a very general “who did okay and who didn’t “ way. When someone says gamblers rely on PFF, do you mean bookies or the idiots who support them?
Peppers is a much better player moving towards the LOS rather than away. He’s very much like Collins in that respect, except he is more of an athlete. He’s a Box Safety and nothing more. You need to use him more in that way. Unfortunately he has to cover RBs and TEs and he’s the one with the athleticism to do it, however he’s slow to react to the pass.
"Grades
PFF grades every NFL player on every play on a scale of -2 to +2 using half point increments.[6] The grades are based on context and performance. A four-yard run that gains a first down after two broken tackles will receive a better grade than a four-yard run on 3rd & 5, where the ball carrier does nothing more than expected. A quarterback who makes a good pass that a receiver tips into the arms of a defender will not negatively affect the quarterback's grade on that play, despite the overall negative result for the team.
Furthermore, grades are separated by play type. Beyond just an overall grade, an offensive lineman receives one grade for pass-blocking and one for run-blocking.[7] The average grade is meant to be zero, and raw grades are normalized.
In watching every game, PFF is also able to record information and create data that is typically unavailable. One example is how frequently individual offensive linemen yield pressure.
Advanced Statistics
PFF covers every player on every play of every game at the NFL and major college football level and creates advanced stats based on the information gleaned from this.[8]
Criticism
PFF has been criticized by the analytics community regarding the accuracy and veracity of its ratings.[9] In contrast to the purely quantitative ratings released by sources like Football Outsiders, TeamRankings, and numberFire, PFF uses qualitative and opinion-based grading as the root of its 0-100 Player Grades -- not its advanced statistics. As such, the 0-100 Player Grades are not truly quantitative and could be seen as being prone to bias, poor sample sizing, or other issues."
IMHO: The fact that PFF uses qualitative ratings (i.e. opinions) in addition to quantitative ratings (i.e. numerical stats) is a strength rather than a weakness.
Anyhow...that's what PFF does. Form you own conclusions.
As for their grades, I'm reminded of one my favorite Bill James quote about new statistics: A statistic that is never surprising is probably not worth very much. A statistic that is always surprising is probably wrong.
Frankly I was surprised at freeman's low grade (with no mention of Gallman, who did well).
Engram sticks out because of his crucial drop and his perpetual lousy blocking, I get that.