For the inaugural PFR tutorial video, I show you how to use the new Player Touchdown Finder:

There's no other way to say it -- Peyton Manning owns our adjusted net yards per attempt stat. Let's use our Play Index Season Finder tool to demonstrate...

After finishing second in ANY/A to Steve McNair (with whom he shared co-MVP honors) for the 2003 season, Manning led the league in the category in 2004, posting a 9.78 mark that ranks as the best single-year performance in football since 1969. The following year, Manning fell to 8.03 ANY/A, leading the league with "only" the 12th best single-season since 1969, and in 2006 he was tops among NFL passers again, putting up the 15th-best season since 1969. In 2007 and 2008 he ranked an un-Manning-like 3rd overall and 6th overall, respectively (yes, you know you're good when being a top-6 QB represents a down season), but this year Manning is back to his old tricks. No more Tony Dungy? Tom Moore reduced to a consulting role? Peyton Manning is an ANY/A machine, and machines care not for your puny human concerns about coaching changes:

Rk	Player	Year	Age	Tm	G	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	Int	Sk	SkYds	ANY/A
1	Peyton Manning	2009	33	IND	3	66	96	68.8%	983	7	2	2	15	10.39
2	Drew Brees	2009	30	NOR	3	67	97	69.1%	841	9	2	4	39	8.83
3	Eli Manning	2009	28	NYG	3	59	91	64.8%	747	5	1	1	8	8.63
4	Joe Flacco	2009	24	BAL	3	68	104	65.4%	839	6	2	3	22	7.92
5	Kyle Orton	2009	27	DEN	3	49	88	55.7%	663	3	0	3	16	7.77
6	Matt Schaub	2009	28	HOU	3	69	107	64.5%	823	7	2	4	35	7.55
7	Matt Ryan	2009	24	ATL	3	60	91	65.9%	648	5	1	2	16	7.39
8	Philip Rivers	2009	28	SDG	3	67	114	58.8%	991	3	3	7	44	7.21
9	Tony Romo	2009	29	DAL	3	51	89	57.3%	735	4	3	3	27	7.10
10	Aaron Rodgers	2009	26	GNB	3	51	90	56.7%	714	4	0	12	92	6.88
11	Jason Campbell	2009	28	WAS	3	69	102	67.6%	793	3	2	5	33	6.82
12	Kevin Kolb	2009	25	PHI	3	62	96	64.6%	741	4	3	3	27	6.66
13	Mark Sanchez	2009	23	NYJ	3	49	83	59.0%	606	4	2	5	51	6.19
14	Matt Hasselbeck	2009	34	SEA	2	35	54	64.8%	376	3	2	1	7	6.16
15	Jay Cutler	2009	26	CHI	3	65	101	64.4%	760	6	5	6	30	5.84
16	Ben Roethlisberger	2009	27	PIT	3	78	109	71.6%	860	3	4	7	65	5.82
17	Tom Brady	2009	32	NWE	3	87	142	61.3%	871	3	2	1	10	5.81
18	David Garrard	2009	31	JAX	3	55	101	54.5%	618	2	1	5	10	5.69
19	Shaun Hill	2009	29	SFO	3	52	82	63.4%	548	3	1	9	55	5.58
20	Brett Favre	2009	40	MIN	3	61	94	64.9%	566	5	1	9	59	5.46

Needless to say, Manning is the NFL leader since 1969 in ANY/A (caveat: we should note again that today's pass-happy environment greatly tilts the ANY/A playing field in the favor of modern QBs), but he's also dominating his contemporaries -- among quarterbacks with at least 1,800 attempts since 1998, Manning has far and away the best ANY/A:

Rk	Player	From	To	Tm	G	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	Int	Sk	SkYds	ANY/A
1	Peyton Manning	1998	2009	CLT	179	3905	6056	64.5%	46611	340	167	207	1333	7.12
2	Kurt Warner	1998	2009	TOT	113	2407	3679	65.4%	29454	186	118	243	1566	6.71
3	Tom Brady	2000	2009	NWE	116	2388	3795	62.9%	27317	200	88	204	1288	6.52
4	Drew Brees	2001	2009	TOT	110	2401	3747	64.1%	27099	177	101	143	1069	6.43
5	Rich Gannon	1998	2004	TOT	86	1739	2802	62.1%	19890	124	56	187	996	6.31
6	Jeff Garcia	1999	2009	TOT	125	2264	3676	61.6%	25537	161	83	181	947	6.24
7	Trent Green	1998	2008	TOT	119	2266	3739	60.6%	28475	162	114	259	1621	6.24
8	Carson Palmer	2004	2009	CIN	68	1436	2258	63.6%	16245	111	71	115	755	6.12
9	Chad Pennington	2000	2009	TOT	88	1631	2469	66.1%	17804	102	64	162	965	6.08
10	Daunte Culpepper	1999	2008	TOT	97	1927	3042	63.3%	23208	146	100	284	1589	6.02
11	Ben Roethlisberger	2004	2009	PIT	75	1267	2014	62.9%	15834	104	73	199	1318	6.01
12	Jake Delhomme	1999	2009	TOT	89	1506	2525	59.6%	18478	117	83	144	1086	5.99
13	Donovan McNabb	1999	2009	PHI	135	2544	4321	58.9%	29399	196	91	322	1978	5.87
14	Doug Flutie	1998	2005	TOT	70	1011	1810	55.9%	12512	72	52	83	537	5.85
15	Steve McNair	1998	2007	TOT	132	2388	3906	61.1%	26873	151	101	208	1269	5.85
16	Matt Hasselbeck	1999	2009	TOT	144	2048	3401	60.2%	23925	150	96	249	1519	5.78
17	Brett Favre	1998	2009	TOT	179	3810	6169	61.8%	43102	287	216	284	1920	5.77
18	Marc Bulger	2002	2009	RAM	90	1864	2992	62.3%	21684	118	87	245	1805	5.66
19	Mark Brunell	1998	2008	TOT	114	1908	3229	59.1%	21915	130	72	265	1688	5.61
20	Vinny Testaverde	1998	2007	TOT	91	1487	2524	58.9%	17010	100	84	120	773	5.47

The difference between Manning and #3 Tom Brady is roughly the same as the gulf between Brady and Jake Delhomme!

Now, obviously adjusted net yards per attempt is hardly the final word on QB performance, but it does correlate highly with winning ballgames, and over the course of his career, nobody has been more dominant in the statistic than Peyton Manning.

Due to popular demand, Justin has added the ability to search cumulative game spans to the Player Game Finder. Here are some examples:

• Most rushing yards in a team's first four games.
• Most TD passes by a QB when his team lost the game.
• Most receptions in the first two weeks of the season.

Notice that he also added the team's W-L record to the results pages, which lets you know facts like "the Saints were 2-6 in 2008 when Drew Brees threw 40 or more times."

As always, play around with the new additions, enjoy them, and let us know about any bugs you come across so that we can fix them.

The improvements to the site didn't just stop when we had our big rollout last week... Nossir, Justin Kubatko has continued to work tirelessly not only to shore up whatever bugs have arisen in the early stages of use for our brand-new Finders, but also to add even more available criteria to the new tools. Thanks to his efforts, we can proudly report that the Player Game Finder now offers several new options at your disposal when searching through our game logs:

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I know what you're thinking: after a week of daily bombardment with new site features, what could we possibly have left in store for you today? Well, last but certainly not least, it's time to unveil what is perhaps our favorite new tool: the Player Touchdown Finder. (Continued)

On Tuesday, we revealed the first of our new PFR Play Index tools (the game logs, splits, and TD logs), and yesterday we upped the ante with the addictive new Player Season Finder. How can we top those new features? Well, allow me to introduce you to the Player Game Finder...

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Yesterday, we began the much-anticipated unveiling of the new PFR Play Index by giving you a guided tour of the Player Game Logs, Splits, and Scoring Logs. As great as those new features are, though, I think today's is even more thrilling: the Player Season Finder.

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Well, this is it, ladies and gentlemen. I realize that you've been waiting a long time for something like this, and by gosh, it's finally here. You know, the term "life-changing" is thrown around all too often these days, but I think you'll find it entirely appropriate for what we're doing here at Pro-Football-Reference this week. Due to popular demand and the subsequent blood, sweat, and tears of Sports-Reference's resident master programmer, Justin Kubatko, PFR can now proudly stand side by side with its baseball-centric sister site and shout loud and clear: "Yes! Now I, too, have a Play Index!" And if that doesn't bring a tear of joy to your eye... well, I just don't know what will.

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