Scout's Eye with Matt Williamson: Rest (dis)advantage
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I am Matt Williamson, at Williamson NFL. |
| 0:09.6 | How's everyone doing? |
| 0:10.7 | Kind of in a quiet time of the NFL season. |
| 0:13.4 | But I wanted to put a bow on the schedule and really take things a lot deeper. |
| 0:21.0 | And I credit Warren Sharp for all this research. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm just kind of regurgitating it. |
| 0:25.7 | But I do think it's really, really interesting stuff. |
| 0:28.5 | And we're going to start by talking about rest advantage. |
| 0:32.5 | What's rest advantage? |
| 0:34.2 | Pretty easy to figure out. |
| 0:37.0 | If it's week two and I play on Sunday and you play on |
| 0:41.7 | Monday night and then in week three we face each other, I get a one day rest advantage. |
| 0:49.4 | See what I'm saying? You need less time to prepare. Coming off Thursday nighters long week short weeks all that stuff |
| 0:57.4 | so what Warren did was he accumulated over the course of the year what every team's net rest |
| 1:06.9 | advantage was over the course of the year so it it's a huge advantage. I mean, without going |
| 1:14.4 | into all the numbers he does, when you have one day rest advantage, you win X percent. I mean, |
| 1:20.4 | if you have two, you know, three days rest advantage, you get X percent, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:24.7 | Rest advantage is huge. And over the course of the year, it can really add up. |
| 1:29.8 | And there's more of it now than ever, because, I mean, we'll really go back in NFL history, |
| 1:36.5 | Thursday night games, three games and 11 days from the Steelers, you know, Christmas days, |
| 1:42.2 | Thanksgiving, all this stuff. So it really does add up, and it ends up being a huge advantage. |
| 1:48.5 | And speaking of huge advantages, Warren's been doing this for some time. |
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