Aaron Schatz talks DVOA creation + how Commanders & contending NFL teams rank in the stat
The Kevin Sheehan Show
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're going to talk to Aaron Shats. |
| 0:02.7 | Hopefully, we're just having some issues with our phones. |
| 0:05.4 | Aaron is the creator of the DVOA metric. |
| 0:09.6 | We reference that all the time on this show. |
| 0:14.3 | It's essentially a stat. |
| 0:16.7 | It stands for defense-adjusted value over average. |
| 0:21.5 | It takes basically every play, but it doesn't treat every single play the same. |
| 0:26.1 | You know, an 8-yard, you know, a 10-yard play on 3rd and 20 isn't valued as highly as 4-yardyard play on third and two. |
| 0:38.2 | So there's real context on down distance, et cetera. |
| 0:42.8 | And Aaron created this, and it's a very good way to sort of measure a team's overall strength |
| 0:50.0 | compared to other teams and to look at a specific side of the ball, |
| 0:55.6 | offense, defense, special teams as well. |
| 0:59.6 | You let me know when we've got Aaron. |
| 1:02.2 | We've got them? |
| 1:04.0 | Okay, good. |
| 1:05.3 | It's my pleasure to welcome back to the show. |
| 1:07.7 | The creator of something we reference quite often. |
| 1:11.9 | DVOA, Aaron Schatz, at A-Shats NFL, A-S-C-H-A-T-Z NFL. |
| 1:19.2 | You can get access to everything that I have access to. |
| 1:22.8 | I am a subscriber at F-T-N Fantasy. |
| 1:31.7 | By the way, I was having a conversation the other day on my podcast about your all-time rankings. You went back, I think in this past off season, you know, |
| 1:37.7 | the 91 skins get referenced a lot on this show. I believe that it's the all-time greatest |
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