Looks like that’s sorted by sacks allowed. Change that to QB hits we are 14th. Who knows what the real barometer should be.

That’s pretty neat. FO does a more “advanced” OL thing, but I think it uses the same numbers (from the play by play transcript). It’s nice to see the nuts and bolts of that here.

They need to include the number of attempts for it to make any sense, though. Saying we had one negative rush right means something different if we ran right on 2 or 12 plays.

Anyways, this is VERY useful information for grading line play, and it’s pretty simple database work to get it from what they already had. One game probably doesn’t mean a lot, but they retroactively ran the numbers for previous years, so you can see 16 games rolled up. Very cool. Maybe I’ll do a post on the quality of our line play over time at some point.

Unfortunately, they only do it for the Steelers. Here it is for the Falcons. They watch every OL on every play and give them a “good” or “bad”. Pouncey had a 95% success rate on 60 plays, Essex had 92%, Starks 90, Kemo 88, Flozell 77.