Do stats like these even exist anywhere? Does someone like Stats, Inc. I could think of more examples if I spent some time on it, but I think you get my point. Was the QB hit on the play? (Of course, sacks are listed, but this only tells a small piece of the QB-pressure story.) The offensive/defensive package on the field (this could kinda be inferred if we knew the personnel on the field, but it would be much clearer to just know that the defense was in their nickel package, or the offense was in the shotgun spread) Where passes (complete or incomplete) were thrown (left/right? over the middle? along the sideline?) How far incomplete passes were thrown (of course, it currently gives the length of completed passes, but it says nothing about how far an incomplete pass attempt went) Which players were on the field for offense/defense on each play (could lead to development of some fascinating +/- stats for football) Specifically, I would love to see information on: You can find exactly where every ball was hit in the in/outfield, what kind of pitch was thrown, where the pitch was positioned over the plate, etc.īrian, do you know if any such service exists for football? I'm sure that it must be terribly expensive if it does, but I'm curious about whether it is even possible to get more detailed information about games from throughout the decade. I know that for baseball, if you subscribe to some very expensive stats service, you can get ridiculously detailed descriptions of every single pitch. While this data is extremely helpful, and Brian has probably done more with it than anyone could reasonably expect, it strikes me that there is so much MORE meaningful analysis that could be done if we had more meaningful narratives available to us. I was surprised to see that the play-by-play actually says where each run went (up the middle, off-tackle, etc.) Sadly, it gives no such narrative for the pass plays.
With many more minds testing theories, there's no telling what interesting things we'll learn. To do more advanced analysis, you may need a scripting language. The cell will say TRUE or FALSE according to whether the text "INTERCEPTED" was found. In a new column you would type "ISNUMBER(SEARCH("INTERCEPTED",J2)). The play descriptions are in column J in the data I provided, and they will contain the word "INTERCEPTED" if there was an interception on the play. Say you want to identify the plays that were interceptions. Someone else might add a column for drive result, and so on.
2007 NBA PLAY BY PLAY DATA SERIES
Another contributor might add a column for whether or not the current series leads to a first down. I can see where this might become a community effort, where one person might add a column for yardage gained or lost. I have not performed any analysis on the data, so what you'll get are the only basics-time, down, distance, yard line, play description, and score. The resulting database comprises nearly all non-preseason games from the 2002 through seasons. I've recently completed a project to compile publicly-available NFL play-by-play data.
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