www.collegefootballmetrics.com
After many final tweaks, we
have opened our new college football
prospect scouting website to the public!
College Football
Metrics.com is a simple website that will store
all of our 2012 NFL Draft statistical ratings
for the prospects in this draft class, as well
as detailed long-form report-outs on all the
prospects that our computer formulas are keying
on in its analysis and modeling. Our new site is
a subscription-based access, and all of our 2012
NFL Draft scouting reports/information will be
"in storage" on the site for all of 2012...for
your research and review at any time
post-draft/mid-season etc.
We rank players based on a
computer formula/algorithm for each position
based on all the historical data that we have,
and formulas that we have devised. We take a
Moneyball approach to the scouting
process...scouting players heavily by data --
physical measureables, college output,
historical modeling. Instead of a long-winded
explanation on what our reports are all about,
the best example we can give of the work that we
do...is to have you go check out the College
Football Metrics.com home page to see examples
of prospect reports that we have produced in
2011 and a few samples of QB reports we have
released for free in 2012.
The world does not need
another website, reporter, and/or scout to tell
you that some version of Luck-Griffin-Kalil-Blackmon-Claiborne-Richardson-Coples
are going to be among the top 5-7 players taken
in the 2012 NFL Draft. If you are interested in
arguing about what the actual order of the
"anointed" top-5 players taken will be, there
are many other websites to enjoy. Our
statistical scouting website is on a quest to
find future NFL elites, to unearth the hidden
gems, and to identify the probable highly-touted
prospects that our computer programs think will
bust. We are not beholden to conventional
scouting, or media group-think...and our 2011
work has proven that.
We cannot make a full
determination in our prospect algorithms until
the NFL Combine data is in, but looking at some
of the early data...I'm not so sure that Matt
Kalil and Morris Claiborne are the
top prospective NFL players at their respective
positions for the 2012 NFL Draft, nor am I
convinced that Justin Blackmon is the
best NFL WR prospect in this draft. They may be,
but what I see so far...it's not a slam dunk in
our system. Once we have the full data, we will
lay out the statistical case (if there is one to
be made) for why our computer models might hold
contrarian views on the "mainstream" NFL Draft
media's top prospects.
We are in the early stages
of reporting out on players on our new site.
Currently, there are 15+ individual QB reports
on prospects that we saw as having potential,
and/or were of interest. As the days/weeks move
on...we will be adding more QB research reports.
As well, we will update the QB rankings once the
data comes in on some key physical measureables
we need...and especially as the Wonderlic scores
become public/trustworthy.
Our RB-WR-TE, O-Line and
Defensive player reports cannot be fully
scored/rated until the NFL Combine (or Pro-Day
for some) data is completed. We will be pumping
out research reports on all non-QB reports as
fast as we complete them...all the way up to
April and beyond. Not only will we be doing
long-form report outs on all the positions, we
will have overall rankings, draft theory/history
articles...anything we do for the 2012 NFL
Draft, is going to go into our new website
holding tank.
Instead of waiting until
late-March to produce all the player reports at
one time, we are opening this up early so folks
can follow along as our reports drop in...and
interesting discoveries are made. We envision
this website having reports and data sprinkling
in, and/or flooding in, all throughout the 2012
NFL Draft process.
Our NFL Draft information
and reports will not end with the actual NFL
Draft in April. Post-draft we will have analysis
on grading the teams, as well as producing
ranking lists/theory for Dynasty League Fantasy
Football owners to prep for their 2012 Rookie
Drafts.
We hope that you enjoy this
new concept, and find it useful and actionable.
It will definitely be a different type of
analysis than you will see in the mainstream...
Select a position
from the tabs below
to see stats and scouting information for that respective
position.
