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PFR Milestone Tracker
Our intrepid basketball and hockey guru Justin Kubatko recently added a milestone tracker to our Hockey and Basketball sites. We prevailed upon him to port it over to the football site, and he has done so. Now for the most popular counting stats you can see who is ...
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Courtesy of Matt Knobbe and the Tecmo Super Bowl Repository , here's your Tecmo Super Bowl Game of the Week for Week 12, featuring the Minnesota Vikings and the Arizona Cardinals . The highlights:
(How did we do this? Matt and the other dedicated folks at the Knobbe.org message board ...
Football
Minnesota Vikings
Arizona Cardinals
When it comes to racking up the big numbers, few passers in NFL history have been as prolific as Peyton Manning and Brett Favre . Favre is, of course, the league's all-time leader in passing yards and TDs, but Manning isn't very far behind and ostensibly has ample time remaining in his career, ...
Football
Brett Favre
Peyton Manning
I had this idea to look at how teams performed in the final two weeks of the regular season when they had different types of playoff pressure on them. We have "against the spread" information going back to the 1983 season, so that would give us 26 seasons to check how teams performed under ...
Football
Every Tuesday for the remainder of the season, P-F-R will be teaming up with the New York Times' Fifth Down Blog. This week, I wrote about Steven Jackson's huge season for the last-place Rams . Jackson may become just the third player in league history to lead the league in carries on the team ...
Football
Steven Jackson
St. Louis Rams
2009 NFL Standings / Packers Franchise Page
As you can tell, we are pretty fond of our Simple Rating System (SRS). While we use it a lot on the blog it hasn't been on the site proper. I've now added it (back to 1960) to the standings pages for each season, the franchise index pages, and the ...
Other
Last week's NFL ratings
In this post I argued that a good, simple way to predict future NFL team performance would be to ignore points scored, points allowed and win-loss record and instead focus on pass and rush efficiency on both sides of the ball.
Offensive passing efficiency, as used ...
Football
Rickie Weeks
Previous HOF 2010 Bios: John Randle
Roger Craig had the sort of career most running backs could only dream of enjoying. When Craig was drafted by the 49ers, they already had Joe Montana and head coach Bill Walsh , and would soon add Jerry Rice to the mix. Craig played most of his career in ...
Football
Roger Goodell
Two weeks after their debacle at Indianapolis, the New England Patriots suffered another embarrassing defeat in front of a national television audience on Monday night, as Drew Brees ravaged their defense en route to a 38-17 New Orleans Saints blowout. Here are the worst losses by the Patriots ...
Football
Drew Brees
In September , we noted that 131 candidates were placed on the preliminary list of modern-era nominees for election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Saturday, that list was narrowed down to 25 semifinalists . By January 7th, that list will be reduced by a mail ballot to 15 modern-era ...
Football
Last week's SRS rankings
Peter R. Wolfe's college games scores
While little changed at the top -- only Ndamukong Suh and the Cornhuskers stand in the way of the seemingly inevitable Texas-Floribama BCS Championship Game -- it was a wild rivalry week in college football. The only two ...
Baseball
Rickie Weeks
I'm stunned, absolutely stunned (your sarcasm meter should start going off about now) by the double standard that exists with complaining about coaching decisions. All last week, I heard about how a decision is judged on what happens thereafter. Well, by that standard, I saw plenty of decisions ...
Football
Gary Kubiak
On Monday , I posited a way to predict future NFL team performance while ignoring things like points scored, points allowed and win-loss record. Instead, I argued that we should break each team into four parts: passing efficiency, rushing efficiency, defensive passing efficiency and defensive ...
Football
Rickie Weeks
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at PFR! And as usual, thanks are in order to Matt Knobbe and the Tecmo Super Bowl Repository , who present your Tecmo Super Bowl Game of the Week for Week 12, featuring the New England Patriots and the undefeated New Orleans Saints . The highlights:
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Football
New England Patriots
New Orleans Saints
Last week, a high level cat fight broke out over Malcolm Gladwell's book "What The Dog Saw" when Dr. Steven Pinker wrote a critique in the NY Times. That critique included a reference to one essay in the book, which originally ran last December in the New Yorker, entitled "Most Likely to ...
Football
Chris Draft
Malcolm Jenkins
The Baltimore Ravens can't buy a red-zone touchdown these days -- against the Colts on Sunday, they had four chances from inside Indy's 20, and four times they came away with nothing so show for it. This isn't a new development, either; since they scored two red zone TDs against the Patriots on ...
Football
Baltimore Ravens
Ray Rice
Derrick Mason
Joe Flacco
I don't advocate gambling on football games, and neither does the P-F-R blog. Point-spread data are very useful as historical guides to understanding the perception at any point in time and to measure how the public may improperly value certain teams. The past is never a perfect prediction of ...
Baseball
Rickie Weeks
Last week's SRS ratings: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=4654
Thanks to Peter R. Wolfe , who makes the final score of all college football games publicly available, here are the NCAA SRS ratings through twelve weeks:
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Baseball
Rickie Weeks
Philip Rivers leads the Chargers into battle against the Denver Broncos again on Sunday, and San Diego has to feel pretty good about its chances with No. 17 at the helm.
That's because, out of all the players in NFL/AFL history to face the Broncos franchise, no quarterback has ever performed ...
Football
Denver Broncos
Philip Rivers
Sports-Reference , with the help of researcher Greg Spira, is proud to present our definitive, comprehensive reference page regarding the performance-enhancing drug policies in place for various North American sports leagues/associations . In it, you'll find a list (in FAQ format) of the ...
