For the past two seasons at Buffalobills.com we’ve tried to shed some light on a relatively new metric category where most of the last 15 Super Bowl champions have ranked high. Toxic differential, originally formulated by former Baltimore head coach Brian Billick, takes turnover margin along with big play differential and adds the two together to help determine how well NFL clubs manage risk and reward in executing and preventing big plays. In 2015 Buffalo had their highest ranking in toxic differential.
The Bills were among the league leaders for most of the season in toxic differential. Now with the 2015 campaign over Buffalo posted its highest ranking ever in the category finishing fourth in the NFL according to SportingCharts.