But why put them up there? They are the ones choosing to put those 5 stats there. Presumably because they somehow inform their rankings. But in KP's case, the data don't support the rankings (which makes it an interesting case to discuss IMO).
Although this is only for deep throws, and he did do well there (in limited attempts). I wonder if this is more Pickett or Pickens (who also thrives on the deep passes). Just like I wonder (and I'm sure you've argued) that his struggles with intermediate throws have been due to WRs in part (there was a WR evaluation of Pickett that specifically said he was great deep, but bad intermediate and over the middle).
Either way, the counting stats are the ones PFF choses to put in there. Maybe it's more clear to those that pay for the site, but I think they should have used their 3 sentences to explain why he's average to well below average in all the stats they chose to post, but they rank him 6th in the league (which seems fairly high IMO).
Cases like this are when models become interesting IMO.
But with the info they have here, it's very hard to just believe their subjective evaluation process when it seems to conflict very with the objective stats they post.
Do they have a similar analysis of players for other air yard distances? My guess is that KP will do fairly well short and long. But be quite poor in intermediate. At least that's been what many of us have been saying since the Steelers were last playing football games.
Again...I really hope PFF and all the KP boosters on here are 100% right (and are even underestimating how good he'll be).
Although this is only for deep throws, and he did do well there (in limited attempts). I wonder if this is more Pickett or Pickens (who also thrives on the deep passes). Just like I wonder (and I'm sure you've argued) that his struggles with intermediate throws have been due to WRs in part (there was a WR evaluation of Pickett that specifically said he was great deep, but bad intermediate and over the middle).
Either way, the counting stats are the ones PFF choses to put in there. Maybe it's more clear to those that pay for the site, but I think they should have used their 3 sentences to explain why he's average to well below average in all the stats they chose to post, but they rank him 6th in the league (which seems fairly high IMO).
Cases like this are when models become interesting IMO.
But with the info they have here, it's very hard to just believe their subjective evaluation process when it seems to conflict very with the objective stats they post.
Do they have a similar analysis of players for other air yard distances? My guess is that KP will do fairly well short and long. But be quite poor in intermediate. At least that's been what many of us have been saying since the Steelers were last playing football games.
Again...I really hope PFF and all the KP boosters on here are 100% right (and are even underestimating how good he'll be).
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