BY ADAM GROSSMAN & ROSS CHUMSKY
Brady, Smith Generate Highest Percentage Of Wins For Their NFL Teams
In the process of creating the Revenue Above Replacement (RAR) for the NFL for this season, our team at Block Six Analytics (B6A) identified the need to create a version of this on-field metric. RAR examines how an individual player generates revenue for a team based on his on field, off field, and personal performance. In the past, we relied on WAR or PER to create our models for the MLB and NBA, respectively.
To solve this problem for football, we used multiple data sets and multi-factor regression analysis. We were able to determine two main attributes that accounted for wins. In essence, these factors are how well (Grade) and how much (Snaps) did a player perform during the 2017 season.