Now that the 2017 season is in the books, let’s take a closer look at the stats from the season.
Here are some notable numbers from the past year:
1: Baltimore had the top-ranked special teams unit in the league based on the stat DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average) from the statistical-[hyphen]analysis website Football Outsiders. (DVOA is a stat that measures a team’s efficiency by comparing success on every single play to a league average based on situation and opponent. Here’s the full explanation).
With Justin Tucker, Sam Koch, Morgan Cox and company, the special-teams unit actually ranked in the top-10 in the website’s rankings over the last 30 years.