The entire NFL is on the verge of major change on offense
Where did you get that 12% figure from? I’m interested in this sort of data.
There’s a program called R that pulls data from several sources with a package called nflfastR, that’s the quickest way because a lot of the clean up is done. I’m building templates to quickly convert the mountain of data into useful info rather than suffer death by a thousand pivot tables.
There is also a link to the repository which has all the data split up with some cleanup and aggregation needed, if you search nflfastR (or maybe nflreadR) it should have a link with a glossary for all the data fields and a site with all the different CSV’s that the data gets pulled from.
The four best CSV’s are the:
- Players (to convert numerical ID’s to player names)
- PBP (exhaustive NFL play by play data with plenty of binary variables)
- Participation (players on field by play, personnel packages, etc)
- FTN data (has info on motion, screens, play action, and other play by play)
With R a lot of the above is combined and blank cells are filled, without it takes some work to combine the four.