If you followed last year’s Advanced Stats posts at all, you learned that I kind of fell in love with the Football Outsiders’ Offensive and Defensive Line stats. I’ve said it before, but I’m not the world’s greatest statistical mind. I like to get into the details of advanced stats and learn how they’re calculated, largely because my mind doesn’t quickly wrap itself around the larger concepts. Early on, I often found myself looking at the advanced stats post and mind had a reaction not unlike this:
As I got more into the stats and learned how to calculate them (at least pre-opponent adjustments), I really started to enjoy myself and understand what they were really trying to say.