🏈 Stats and Player Grades

[Alabama17Tide]

I have added a bunch of interesting stats going into week six. Enjoy.

The Unbelievable
* Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has directed 35 drives with 24 resulting in a touchdown

* Tagovailoa is 17 of 21 on 3rd down conversions this season

* Tagovailoa has an efficiency rating of 238.32

* Alabama has racked up more than 500-yards in total offense for five games in a row, which is a Crimson Tide record

* Alabama has scored more than 45 points or more for five consecutive games in a row for the first time in school history

* Alabama has forced at least one turnover in their last 47 of 49 games dating back to the 2015 season.

Also Good
* Alabama has now won 22 games in a row at Bryant Denny Stadium

* Mac Jones’ 94-yard touchdown pass to Jaylen Waddle equals the second-longest in school history.

Team Firsts
* Jaylen Waddle returned his first career punt for a touchdown against ULL

* Mac Jones through his first career touchdown pass against ULL

Team Leaders

* Najee Harris leads the team with 319 net rushing yards

* Josh Jacobs leads the team in rushing touchdowns with 5

* Jerry Jeudy leads the team in receiving yards with 423

* Deionte Thompson and Xavier McKinney lead the team with 2 interceptions

* Deionte Thompson leads the team in total tackles with 27

* Isaiah Buggs leads the team in sacks with 5.5

The Bizarre
* Tua Tagovailoa has not thrown a pass in the fourth quarter of any game this season

* Opponents are outscoring Alabama in the fourth quarter this season 28-17

* Alabama has had just one 100-yard rusher this season (Najee Harris in week two against Arkansas State)

The Bad
* Alabama is 5 of 9 kicking field goals this year

Player grades against ULL from PFF

Top Offensive Grades Minimum 19 Snaps
Jaylen Waddle - WR - 95.8
Henry Ruggs III - WR - 93.4
Jalen Hurts - QB - 92.3
Tua Tagovailoa - QB - 92.2
Lester Cotton - LG - 80.5

Top Defensive Grades Minimum 20 Snaps
Raekwon Davis - DL - 81.9
Quinnen Williams - DL - 78.4
Trevon Diggs - DB - 77.6
Xavier McKinney - DB - 76.8
Christian Miller - LB - 86.1

Stat Bombs: Alabama Crimson Tide now 5-0 heading into Week Six | BamaInsider.com

 

[Tidestalker]

Waddle is amazing. Not sure how he can get the ball more considering ALL the other weapons... But the more he's on the field the more dangerous we are. What a stud

 

[TerryP]

Top Offensive Grades Minimum 19 Snaps
Jaylen Waddle - WR - 95.8
Henry Ruggs III - WR - 93.4?
Jalen Hurts - QB - 92.3
Tua Tagovailoa - QB - 92.2
Lester Cotton - LG - 80.5

In player bio's over on rolltide.com you'll find a few with "grades" for individual games. Each week we're seeing PFF put out their grades for different teams and here they've done it for the offense in week five.

It brings up a question. How? Here they're giving Cotton an 80.5. What are they basing that grade upon? To know how well an offensive lineman is doing a main requirement would be what his responsibility was on a particular play, right? I can see PFF giving a guy a good mark due to the way he handled an opposing tackle but what if his responsibility on that play was the end? Sure, he had a knock down block on the DT but he missed his assignment completely.

In my mind it makes these grading system a little flawed, no?

 

[Alabama17Tide]

Top Offensive Grades Minimum 19 Snaps
Jaylen Waddle - WR - 95.8
Henry Ruggs III - WR - 93.4?
Jalen Hurts - QB - 92.3
Tua Tagovailoa - QB - 92.2
Lester Cotton - LG - 80.5

In player bio's over on rolltide.com you'll find a few with "grades" for individual games. Each week we're seeing PFF put out their grades for different teams and here they've done it for the offense in week five.

It brings up a question. How? Here they're giving Cotton an 80.5. What are they basing that grade upon? To know how well an offensive lineman is doing a main requirement would be what his responsibility was on a particular play, right? I can see PFF giving a guy a good mark due to the way he handled an opposing tackle but what if his responsibility on that play was the end? Sure, he had a knock down block on the DT but he missed his assignment completely.

In my mind it makes these grading system a little flawed, no?

@TerryP , I asked that question over on BamaInsider and here's the reply:

PFF has three staff members at each game.

On every play, a PFF analyst will grade each player on a scale of -2 to +2 according to what he did on the play.

At one end of the scale you have a catastrophic game-ending interception or pick-six from a quarterback, and at the other a perfect deep bomb into a tight window in a critical game situation, with the middle of that scale being 0-graded, or ‘expected’ plays that are neither positive nor negative.

Each game is also graded by a second PFF analyst independent of the first, and those grades are compared by a third, Senior Analyst, who rules on any differences between the two. These grades are verified by the Pro Coach Network, a group of former and current NFL coaches with over 700 combined years of NFL coaching experience, to get them as accurate as they can be.

From there, the grades are normalized to better account for game situation; this ranges from where a player lined up to the dropback depth of the quarterback or the length of time he had the ball in his hand and everything in between. They are finally converted to a 0-100 scale and appear in our Player Grades Tool.

Season-level grades aren’t simply an average of every game-grade a player compiles over a season, but rather factor in the duration at which a player performed at that level. Achieving a grade of 90.0 in a game once is impressive, doing it (12) times in a row is more impressive.

It is entirely possible that a player will have a season grade higher than any individual single-game grade he achieved, because playing well for an extended period of time is harder to do than for a short period, Similarly, playing badly for a long time is a greater problem than playing badly once, so the grade can also be compounded negatively.

Each week, grades are subject to change while we run through our extensive review process including All-22 tape runs and coaching audit, so you may notice discrepancies among grades published in earlier articles compared with those in the Player Grades tool until grade lock each week.​

Kyle Henderson

I don't think he answered your / my question.

 

[TerryP]

@Alabama17Tide, There's a few things here that impress me. One, having three analyst there per game. It brings up the question, who are they?

"From there the grades are normalized..." Okay, how? Film review is what I'm thinking. By the same three?

I'll give them this. It's more detailed than I suspected.