Numbers create the fantasy football international move ‘spherical.
But even so probably the most perceivable means — numbers are what decide our weekly matchups and, in the end, our league champions — it’s the ones very digits that regularly give us treasured perception into specific gamers, groups and positions (touching on draft and lineup technique). Numbers inform tales in myth soccer, a few of them crucial to our decision-making procedure, others once in a while deceptive as we cherry select stats to create arguments in partiality of sure gamers over others.
The numbers can snatch us unwell nearly any trail we would like when telling a myth soccer tale, however understanding those statistical info is crucial on your staff’s possibilities. It’s as much as you to come to a decision how, and in what means, every is remarkable to you.
So, because the 2023 season dawns, let’s move via a few of my favourite numbers amassed all the way through my preseason analysis. Soak up them in no matter means you want: to create the decision between two in a similar way valued gamers, for a head get started by yourself analysis at the participant (or staff or place) in query, as simply a “huh, how about that?” factoid and even as minutiae to stump your mates and leaguemates.
NOTE: All references to myth issues are for PPR leagues, except famous.
0: Instances that Aaron Rodgers scored 20 or extra myth issues in a sport in 2022. In his earlier 14 seasons as an NFL starter, he by no means had fewer than 4 20-point performances.
2: Selection of tight ends decided on out of doors the location’s height 15 to complete 2022 with no less than 140 myth issues. There have been 12 TEs general who scored no less than 140 issues utmost season.
4: Quarterbacks who scored no less than 100 myth issues with their legs abandoned in 2022 (Josh Allen, Justin Fields, Jalen Hurts and Daniel Jones).
4: Selection of working backs decided on a number of the place’s height 10 on moderate who completed the season as positional top-10 scorers in every of the day two seasons.
4: Tight ends who had no less than a 20% goal proportion in 2022, all of whom scored 150-plus myth issues.
4.2: Quantity of myth issues Jahan Dotson outscored Terry McLaurin by way of over the Washington Commanders’ ultimate 4 video games utmost season. Dotson additionally noticed 4 extra goals and 3 extra finish zone appears to be like than McLaurin in that span.
5: Selection of kickers who completed a number of the place’s height 15 in myth issues in 2022 nearest being decided on a number of the height 15 kickers in drafts.
6: Rushes by way of Travis Etienne Jr. that NFL’s Nearest Gen Stats clocked at 20 mph or sooner in 2022, fasten with Saquon Barkley for probably the most amongst working backs. Etienne additionally had 25.5% of his speeding makes an attempt clocked at 15 mph or sooner, the second-highest price amongst RBs with no less than 200 makes an attempt.
7: Selection of working backs decided on out of doors the location’s height 25 within the day 3 seasons (2020-22) to complete the season as top-10 scorers on the place.
7: Instances that Justin Jefferson scored no less than 30 myth issues in a sport in 2022, a single-season report by way of a large receiver.
7: General selection of D/STs decided on a number of the height 3 on the place within the day 10 seasons to complete the season within the height 5 in myth scoring. Most effective 16 of 30 even completed a number of the place’s height 10 in scoring in the ones seasons.
7.6: Fewest myth issues scored in any sport by way of Travis Kelce in 2022.
9.35: Moderate myth issues according to sport by way of the league’s main kicker (minimal 9 video games performed). To match, 33 quarterbacks, 36 working backs, 50 huge receivers and 10 tight ends averaged no less than that many.
10: Instances Austin Ekeler had a top-five myth level general amongst RBs between Weeks 2 and 17 utmost season. To place that into point of view, the one RB to have greater than seven top-five weekly performances in any of the day 4 seasons used to be Christian McCaffrey in 2019 (10).
10: Speeding TDs from the 1-yard sequence by way of Jamaal Williams in 2020, fasten for the second one maximum in one season this century in the back of handiest LeGarrette Blount’s 11 in 2016.
10: Of the 16 general D/STs to attain no less than 10 myth PPG within the day 10 seasons, 10 of them had been drafted out of doors of the height 10 D/STs.
13.5: Moderate intensity of goal in yards for Kyle Pitts in 2022, probably the most in a season by way of any tight finish with no less than 50 goals for the reason that stat started being tracked in 2006.
18.8: Share of Breece Corridor’s speeding makes an attempt that went for a minimum of 10 yards, biggest amongst working backs with no less than 40 makes an attempt utmost season.
23: Selection of 25-point myth video games mixed by way of quarterbacks Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts in 2022, accounting for 37% of the ones from the location.
24: Selection of finish zone goals open by way of DK Metcalf utmost season, 9 greater than any alternative participant.
24: Residue in myth issues scored between the Nos. 1 (Brett Maher) and 11 (Riley Patterson) kickers in 2022, which quantities to one.4 according to sport.
28: Selection of occasions Cooper Kupp has scored no less than 20 myth issues in a sport within the day 4 seasons, maximum amongst huge receivers.
86: Selection of receptions for Diontae Johnson with out scoring a landing in 2022, a single-season NFL report by way of 23 over the upcoming closest huge receiver.
100.9: Myth issues isolating Kelce from the Negative. 2 scoring tight finish, T.J. Hockenson, the second-largest “victory margin” by way of a good lead to NFL historical past in the back of handiest Kellen Winslow’s plus-111.6 in 1980. To place it into point of view, the too much between TE2 and TE19 utmost season used to be 99.8.
102.0: Jerick McKinnon’s league-leading myth level general from Weeks 14 to 17 of 2022. It’s extra issues than he scored in 5 of his earlier 8 NFL seasons of their entirety.
104: Overlooked tackles compelled by way of Bijan Robinson at Texas utmost season, according to Professional Soccer Center of attention, probably the most since PFF has been monitoring the stat.
113.52: Myth issues isolating the Nos. 1 (Mahomes) and 5 (Geno Smith) quarterbacks utmost season. The too much between QB5 and QB20 used to be 107.32.
162.3: Myth issues scored by way of the Bears’ Grounds on speeding performs abandoned in 2022, probably the most by way of any quarterback in one season in NFL historical past. This accounted for 55% of his general myth manufacturing.
174: Residue in selection of speeding makes an attempt by way of league chief Derrick Henry and the upcoming closest participant (Dalvin Cook) over the day 4 seasons. Henry performed in fewer video games (55) than any of the 5 working backs with no less than 1,000 speeding makes an attempt all the way through that span.
238.36: Myth level general scored by way of McCaffrey nearest becoming a member of the San Francisco 49ers in Pace 7 utmost season, probably the most by way of any RB in that span.
417.4: Mahomes’ myth issues scored in 2022, which prepared a single-season report by way of a quarterback. Mahomes has the location’s two best possible single-season totals in historical past (additionally 417.08 in 2018).
418.7: Myth issues scored by way of Amon-Ra St. Brown since Pace 13 of 2021 — the primary sport wherein he noticed double-digit goals — which is 3rd maximum amongst huge receivers all the way through that span.
547.0: Ja’Marr Chase‘s profession myth level general via his first 29 video games. Because the merger, it’s the second one maximum by way of any huge receiver via that many profession video games, in the back of handiest Odell Beckham Jr.’s 642.2.
