Today I am starting my “Tight End Study Series”, similar to my “Quarterback, Running Back, and Wide Receiver Study Series”. With more time this offseason, I wanted to dive deeper into some questions I usually don’t have time for. One of these questions revolved around Tight Ends in the passing game. Here are the datapoints that I wanted to learn from in this study:
- Expected Points Added (EPA)/pass = expected points after pass play-expected points before
- Success/pass = binary indicator (1=success, 0=unsuccessful) whether the pass was successful
- Pass Plays = binary indicator if the play was a pass play
Before the graph comes up, this is important!