Field Gulls · Jun 7, 2017
Seahawks advanced stats: Russell Wilson and Passing Plus-Minus
Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty ImagesDuring the offseason, Football Outsiders publishes a wealth of interesting quarterback statistics from the previous season. These include play-action splits and pressure splits, which have not been released yet for 2016, and passing plus-minus, which I will be discussing here. The usefulness of these stats is that they use their tracking data to provide context to each quarterback’s performance. For example, pressure splits describe how often quarterbacks are pressured and how they perform when under pressure relative to when they are not pressured.
