Good for Free. Hope he keeps it up. His play right now is as much of a steal as last year's was a robbery.
Side note.
I've begun to wonder who does their grading. It's obviously got to be a team of people doing it to grade every single player in the NFL in less than 24 hours. I myself have tried to focus on individual players and it's tough. It takes times.
Have they ever addressed who does their grading? I could probably check the site but it's not that big of a deal.
Anyway, I think it's likely they have people who volunteer to do the stuff. It wouldn't shock me if they have a couple people per team, each grading different aspects.
I think that site suffers from poor inter-rater reliability. I really do because some scores I've seen just do not make sense.
Like Peyton Manning and Caron Palmer's Week 1 passing grade.
Passing grade for Manning was 4.5 and passing grade for Carson Palmer was a 5.5
Here's a little chart I thew together for some single game scores threw 3 weeks. I have no explanation for these scores because they don't make sense at all. I've checked and re-checked some of the ones that are almost too far out there to even look half-right.
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It's unbelievable how varied the scores are between players with similar games, between games with similar stats from the same player, and differing games between the same player and between other players.
Look at Alex Smith's Week 1 and Week 2 scores. He throws 2 more incompletions but has 50 more yards and the same amount of TDs. His grade falls through the floor?
Look at Stafford's week 1 and week 3. They are almost identical but the grade difference is equal to one of the top overall grades they have handed out thus far?
What on Earth is going on with Brandon Weeden? I swear I have checked his grade about a dozen times because I can't believe it and I'm not trying to make myself look like an idiot by posting the wrong value. I've done that for all of them. They're entirely unbelievable.
I don't get it. The more you actually look at their stuff the more it really just starts to fall apart and looks more and more like someone plugs the numbers in and tinkers with variables in the formula to get the result they want.
Is there something I'm missing? Do they outline why there would be such a difference?
