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As fans and media alike wonder which assistant coaches will end up where in the annual NFL musical chairs circus, most of those very same coaches, together with their front office staffs, are busy grading the performances of the last season.
We are not privy to the process going on behind closed doors at Valley Ranch, but we'll try to do a similar job here on BTB of quantifying and assessing the Cowboys performances of the last season. We'll start today by looking at how the individual Cowboys players have performed relative to the other players at their position in the NFL. To do that, we'll look at their positional rankings for the 2013 season, and we'll use thePro Football Focus (PFF) player rankings to determine where a given player is ranked relative to the other players in the league at his position.
Example: PFF ranks 4-3 defensive ends by the cumulative grade they have received for the 2013 season. That ranking lists all 52 defensive ends playing in a 4-3 scheme who played at least 25% of the snaps for their team in 2013. On that list, DeMarcus Ware is ranked as the 8th best 4-3 DE in the league, George Selvie is 29th and Kyle Wilber is 41st (but more on him later).
Because each positional group has a different number of qualifying players (e.g. the wide receiver list contains 111 players, others position groups have more, others have less players ranked), to make the rankings comparable across all position groups, I've converted all positional rankings to a scale of 0 - 100. The highest ranked player at a position gets 100 points, the lowest ranked player gets 0. By that logic, Ware gets an 85 positional ranking [(1-8/52)*100], Selvie gets a 44 and Wilber gets a 21.
I repeated that calculation for all Cowboys players based on the overall ranking scale provided by PFF, and divided the results into quintiles, which results in the following positional ranking groups:
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...ing-dallas-cowboys-players-to-their-NFL-peers
We are not privy to the process going on behind closed doors at Valley Ranch, but we'll try to do a similar job here on BTB of quantifying and assessing the Cowboys performances of the last season. We'll start today by looking at how the individual Cowboys players have performed relative to the other players at their position in the NFL. To do that, we'll look at their positional rankings for the 2013 season, and we'll use thePro Football Focus (PFF) player rankings to determine where a given player is ranked relative to the other players in the league at his position.
Example: PFF ranks 4-3 defensive ends by the cumulative grade they have received for the 2013 season. That ranking lists all 52 defensive ends playing in a 4-3 scheme who played at least 25% of the snaps for their team in 2013. On that list, DeMarcus Ware is ranked as the 8th best 4-3 DE in the league, George Selvie is 29th and Kyle Wilber is 41st (but more on him later).
Because each positional group has a different number of qualifying players (e.g. the wide receiver list contains 111 players, others position groups have more, others have less players ranked), to make the rankings comparable across all position groups, I've converted all positional rankings to a scale of 0 - 100. The highest ranked player at a position gets 100 points, the lowest ranked player gets 0. By that logic, Ware gets an 85 positional ranking [(1-8/52)*100], Selvie gets a 44 and Wilber gets a 21.
I repeated that calculation for all Cowboys players based on the overall ranking scale provided by PFF, and divided the results into quintiles, which results in the following positional ranking groups:
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...ing-dallas-cowboys-players-to-their-NFL-peers