The Combine is a thoroughly enjoyable spectacle. Players earn millions of dollars this weekend by racing themselves in their underpants.
Here's a thread on the most interesting tests for fantasy purposes:
Here's a thread on the most interesting tests for fantasy purposes:
Running Back Combine Correlations
RB Weight Adjusted Speed Score offers the most intrigue of any test across any combine metric for any position.
RB Weight Adjusted Speed Score offers the most intrigue of any test across any combine metric for any position.
RB Population organized by Speed Score and the Top 10 RB Scores.
I think it can provide a quick, subtle grade bump for a player, just keep in mind, Christian McCaffrey, the Top PPG Scorer, had a 50th percentile Speed Score. Rule in, don't rule out.
I think it can provide a quick, subtle grade bump for a player, just keep in mind, Christian McCaffrey, the Top PPG Scorer, had a 50th percentile Speed Score. Rule in, don't rule out.
RB 3 Cone was also an interesting study. As a whole, there's not much to go on, but names like CMC, DeAngelo Williams and Ray Rice can make it fun.
Wide Receiver Combine Correlation sucks in general. Freaking out about BMI and hand size is hilarious but similarly hilarious as freaking out about 40 time and its derivates. By comparison the best WR metrics are half as useful as Speed Score is for RBs.
You can generalize and say bigger (BMI, hand size, arm length, etc.) is better, I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but I wouldn't throw out Jeudy, Lamb, etc. just like I wouldn't throw out Chark, Ridley, Fuller, Desean (in sample) or Rice, Moss and Harrison (HOF).
Hand size really is fun to look at, but you're not gonna downgrade Tyler Lockett or Will Fuller or TY Hilton or Roddy White or Emmanuel Sanders bc they have smaller mitts. Some players catch the ball with their small hands, some don't and cradle into chest.
Being fast is good. Being fast and being able to catch a football is better.
Measuring Tight End athleticism appears to be fairly useful. Colleges don't often maximize the statistical potential of their players, running around cones can help, much more than it does with RBs and WRs.
George Kittle is a total freakshow. Gesicki is sneaky quick.
TE Speed Score is a banger. Fant should hit eventually and the list of 1st rounders that top 115 Speed Score is Nice.
Upcoming article will go more in-depth on draft capital adjustment and the utility of athleticism metrics in models.
In the meantime, our guy Kev White (@dynasty_goat) has written on his perspective of combine metrics using an NFL-Success-First approach.
In the meantime, our guy Kev White (@dynasty_goat) has written on his perspective of combine metrics using an NFL-Success-First approach.
