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Your rights go to that team immediately until and unless you are released, so that's another way to look at it.

You're not anything else once you're drafted. You're that team's property - from an NFL personnel/rights perspective - whether you sign or not.

Because I could not find them easily using Stathead, I have compiled what I believe is the full list of NFL players who have recorded a defensive two-point conversion since the rule was enacted in 2015. Please check to see if I am missing any. 12/6/2015 - New Orleans' Stephone Anthony vs. Carolina o...

One interesting fact I did learn researching this post. Did you know that on a points-per-game basis, the 1948 season is the highest scoring all-time year in the NFL? It's not. There were 60 NFL games in 1948 and teams scored 2,789 points. That's 46.48 points per game. In 2020, in 256 games, NFL te...

Of course you had your first MNF game, and I just saw in Pro Football Reference that Dallas was actually favorite by 5.5. I’m pretty sure I remember seeing in the paper leading up to the game that Steelers were favorite. A quick check of papers on the morning of the game consistently show Dallas as...

Another reason to digitize the information in game books!

The 1977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers opened with Randy Hedberg (rookie, 0 wins, never did win one) Gary Huff (5 career wins, all in Chicago) Jeb Blount (rookie, 0 wins, never did win one) Mike Boryla had 8 career wins (all with Philadelphia) but injured his knee in the preseason, else he likely would have ...

A very quick look at game books seems to indicate that Fourth Down Efficiency wasn't added to the official stats template until 1982. I see one from 1975 where 4th down efficiency was scribbled into the final stats columns, but it looks like you might have to comb through each individual game book, ...

That's very helpful, thank you.

If you could export PF-R's data, it wouldn't be that hard to add who has possession.

So we can basically get at 1994-2024, which is great.

Data is spotty pre-1960. But 1960-1993 would be a worthwhile cause, I feel.

FWIW, This is what the spreadsheets I have look like, which is very close but not identical to the PBP on PF-R. Again, I don't know where I got these, exactly, or who did them (surely someone here did), but consistency would be something to consider.

Massive project but I think it would be worthwhile. I don’t know that there are enough years left to get it done. One big issue I see is that there was no consistent format for these things for years. They would not only require digitization but translation into a consistent format. The data would b...