Collecting thousands of data points for every game puts PFF in a unique place to analyze the game. One of the difficult questions you’re faced with when looking at this copious data is what exactly to do with it. Our research and development team has done some of the most complex and insightful analysis on football. We’ve mapped routes and calculated expected target rates, figured out that pressure rates are mostly owned by the quarterbacks and found that pass coverage may be more important for a defense than pass-rush.
This analysis will look specifically at the question of pass timing, the best way to visualize how a quarterback is working in the context of his offense and how he develops with more experience and different offensive coordinators.