Pro Football Focus, the football analysis organization that NFL fans love to hate, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. In honor of that, Nathan Jahnke of PFF is creating an “All-PFF Team” for the past two decades for every NFL franchise. Each All-PFF team is based on - you guessed it - that team’s players’ PFF grades over their careers, so this is an opportunity for you to decide whether the single-game grades you react to so strongly week by week for specific players translate into injustices when looked at over the entirety of those players’ careers.
Any exercise of this sort is fraught with difficult decisions in how to analyze the data, even though the individual game subjective PFF grades are set in concrete for the purpose of the analysis. Here are a couple of the decisions they make:
OK, take a minute to put your all-time Giants team for the past 20 years together, and see how it matches the one determined by PFF grades. Here we go.
My own reactions to this list are:
What does your list look like?