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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Advanced Stats to Know (05/25 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, NFL, Rookies, NFL Rookies

Football, Sports

4.9719 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Air yards, average depth of target, avoid rate and broken tackle rate. What are these crazy stats!? Which players are especially good at avoiding and breaking tackles?

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0:00.0

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0:33.5

We have more and more statistics at our disposal

0:36.0

to help us make fantasy decisions. Let's talk about some advanced stats right now on FFT and five.

0:41.3

Adam and Heath here. It is Tuesday for us. Wednesday, too. If you're listening, thank you very much for being a loyal audience member. We're going to talk about some stats that we like, some advanced stats that we're going to have Jacob Gibbs on him. Jacob Gibbs lives in this world. He's going to be on the full-length show to talk about advanced stats.

0:56.3

So talk to me about air yards, both for quarterbacks and for wide receivers.

1:01.6

We call that a dot for wide receivers' average depth of target.

1:05.4

For quarterbacks intended air yards per pass attempt, this is how far they're throwing the ball down the field every time they throw or every time they are targeted. How does it impact your fantasy rankings and

1:15.8

decisions? I think it's interesting, especially for the wide receivers, just to see how they're being

1:23.5

used. And we've talked about this before. it's almost better if that a dot is high,

1:28.6

but not too high. You look at a guy like last year, Marquez-Valdes Scantling, 17.9 yards, average

1:36.1

depth of target. Those types of guys don't get enough targets to be consistent fantasy producers.

1:42.6

At the same time, you get a guy that's down around five yards per target,

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