PFF is a really good idea and something that people really want to see. However, in practice there are quite a few problems with the ratings and the way it is graded doesn’t always follow common sense, as far as what we saw during the game. The way they rate things doesn’t always follow along with who impacted their team in a positive way and who helped win the game.
The guys who grade it are just guys who watch football like us who aren’t scouts or associated with football in any other way than just fans. That in itself doesn’t mean that the grades are bad though, and like in everything else, you will have some that are good and some that are bad. Some very knowledgeable, and some who are just doing the old “fake-it-till-you-make-it” way.
I think the criteria they use needs to be tweaked in a few ways. In what ways? I don’t know, but it is just off in a lot of ways IMO. There is a reason why the guys who are in the NFL scoff at PFF grades and put no stock in them. Great for the football fans who consume every tiny bit of information available about the sport they love…but they’re very flawed at this point.
I applaud PFF for getting a system together to grade every player for every snap of every game - something I’ve been wanting going back years and years - but they need to continue to work on it until it follows what we see during games a little more closely.
But I certainly don’t pretend to know how to fix it.
