One of the perks of this job is getting easy access to the NFL's gamebooks, the 16-page files that include all raw statistical data for a game in one location. These gamebooks include the play-by-play data that is the bedrock of our DVOA and DYAR stats, but even if you're not inputting that data into a spreadsheet and running thousands of calculations, it can tell you a lot about what happened in an NFL game. Take this line, for example, from the first quarter of Sunday's game between the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs:
3-9-NYJ 22 (2:30) (Shotgun) R.