A philosophical question I've seen asked but never conclusively answered: should WR value be measured in a player's advantage over his teammates (e.g., Golladay has a +0.24 WOPR advantage over the next-closest receiver) OR should the metric stand for itself as an indicator of isolated value? In other words, should we expect (e.g.) Golladay to be more valuable than, say, Robby Anderson, even though both have similar WTPRR, BECAUSE of the team context? I guess it's kind of a team-centric VBD argument, where value is determined by how much player x outscores his teammates rather than just looking at the number and drawing conclusions. Just wondering if that would make these metrics even more predictive of future success. (That, or I'm salty over watching D.J. Moore get completely ignored last night in favor of a similarly targeted teammate; yeah, probably that!)
An absolute clinic and so fun to read. Thank you so much for the deep dive into the origin of some of these stats and logic that goes into building them, as much as the YTD analysis on what they mean in practice.
A philosophical question I've seen asked but never conclusively answered: should WR value be measured in a player's advantage over his teammates (e.g., Golladay has a +0.24 WOPR advantage over the next-closest receiver) OR should the metric stand for itself as an indicator of isolated value? In other words, should we expect (e.g.) Golladay to be more valuable than, say, Robby Anderson, even though both have similar WTPRR, BECAUSE of the team context? I guess it's kind of a team-centric VBD argument, where value is determined by how much player x outscores his teammates rather than just looking at the number and drawing conclusions. Just wondering if that would make these metrics even more predictive of future success. (That, or I'm salty over watching D.J. Moore get completely ignored last night in favor of a similarly targeted teammate; yeah, probably that!)
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An absolute clinic and so fun to read. Thank you so much for the deep dive into the origin of some of these stats and logic that goes into building them, as much as the YTD analysis on what they mean in practice.