What does pd mean in football

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Florida State Seminoles. Week 10's biggest fantasy football questions: NFL reporters give advice. Pittsburgh Steelers. Adelson: How UConn football became the biggest loser in realignment. UConn Huskies. PD stands for pass or passes defended. For the stat to be recorded, the defender has to get his hands on the ball to disrupt the pass, either through a deflection or by knocking a nearly caught ball out of the receiver's grasp.

The play must result in an incomplete pass. A deflected ball that is caught is recorded as either a reception or an interception, depending on which team caught the ball. PD's are used to assess a defender's performance but can also be used to judge a quarterback who makes poor decisions by throwing the ball into tight coverage by the defense. Pos - position. Note that this is upper-case if the player was his team's primary starter at the given position, it is lower-case if the player started some games but was not his team's primary starter.

It is blank if the player did not start very many games or none at all. There are no hard-and-fast rules for exactly who gets classified as a primary starter, a part-time starter, or a non-starter, but the information has been provided to us by the editors of the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia, who have made these designations after much research.

PosRank - position rank for fantasy football. This denotes the player's rank within his position for that season. Pro Bowler - A player is considered a pro bowler if he was named to the pro bowl as a starter, a reserve, or an injury replacement.

If named to the team, a player is considered a pro bowler even if he does not attend the pro bowl due to injury. Rate - passer rating. Note that pro and college football use different formulas. Rec - receptions. RH position - right halfback. RS position - right safety. SE position - split end. Sk - in a passing table present , this refers to times sacked. In a defensive table, it refers to the number of sacks a player or team made. For individuals, sacks have only been an official stat since SoS - Strength of Schedule indicates the combined winning percentages of the opponents this team played in a given year.

Higher SoS indicates a tougher schedule, lower indicates easier. Targets - pass targets, as given in the play-by-play account of the game. Note that pass locations are defined as long 15 or more yards or short less than 15 yards.

TB position - tailback in the single wing. TD - touchdowns. Tkl - tackles. We have tackle data for all players who were active in or later. Prior to , the tackle data is unofficial, inconsistently recorded from team to team, and incomplete in our database. Also, before , some teams recorded assists while others didn't, so we have lumped tackles plus assists together in the tackles column for those years.

From to present, tackles remain an unofficial stat, but are recorded consistently and should be complete in our database. VBD - the player's fantasy value for the season. VBD stands for Value-Based Drafting, but the initials have come to stand for the result of the method i. The method was popularized by Joe Bryant of footballguys. Essentially, the idea is this: the value of a player is the difference between his fantasy points and a baseline, with the baseline being defined as the number of fantasy points that a relatively cheap replacement would get.

I won't go into detail on why I chose these numbers, but if you are a fantasy footballer, you probably have some idea. Anyway, here's an example. In , O. Simpson had fantasy points. The 24 ranked running back that year was John Brockington who had fantasy points. Thus, O.

But wait, there's just one more thing. NOTE: any player who is below the baseline will be counted as having zero value. WB position - wingback in the single wing. XPA - extra points attempted. XPM - extra points made. Yds - yards. YScm - yards from scrimmage. That is, rushing yards plus receiving yards. Explanation of the Advanced Passing table This is a quick look at how a quarterback did compared to league average in eight different passing stats: yards per attempt , adjusted yards per attempt , net yards per attempt , adjusted net yards per attempt , completion percentage , passing TD percentage , interception percentage , and sack percentage.

First, for each stat for each year for each league, we computed two things: the league average for that stat in that league during the three-year period with the given year in the middle.

For example, the "league average" for the AFL would be the aggregate average of the stats accumulated in the AFL from to