In a season that has been riddled with quarterback injuries, win-challenged teams and a lack of homefield advantage that took until Week 9 to regress, the importance of coaching has never been more apparent than it is now.
Here at PFF, we grade every player on every play of every game, and while we do not explicitly grade play-callers, we can use these grades to figure out which teams are performing higher than expected on a play-for-play basis using the machine learning capabilities of AWS. Using expected points added and its derivative, success rate, we present the three offensive play-callers that are punching well above their weight class through the season’s first nine weeks.