The Great Pro-Football Reference Play Index Rollout: Part III
Posted by Neil Paine on Thursday, August 27, 2009
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...
Have you ever wondered who had the most 300-yard passing games on the road in the second half of the season? The most rushing yards in a playoff loss? The most games with at least 1 interception in the 1990s? Maybe you have, maybe you haven't, but I guarantee you'll start thinking about these questions when you get your hands on the Game Finder. Using the box scores of every NFL and AFL game since 1960, the Game Finder lets you customize a mind-boggling array of single-game searches -- it's every bit as engrossing as the Season Finder, but it takes you even deeper into the numbers by looking at game-by-game results.
Like the season finder, you can select the range of years you want to search through, the age of the player, the league, the team, active/inactive and Hall of Fame status. But the Game Finder also allows you to choose which week of the season you want to limit your search to, including a range of weeks. It includes playoff games as well, meaning you can go through team game #20 if you want. You can specify the location of the game (home/road/neutral) and/or the result of the game (win/loss/tie). And like the season finder, you can include up to 4 criteria in your query. You also have three separate search options at your disposal: You can look for single games (i.e., most passing TD in a game this decade) and total games matching the criteria (most 4-TD games this decade), but you can also search for total games matching the criteria, limited to a single season (most 4-TD games in a season this decade). These three search options give you the ability to put together an almost unlimited degree of possible searches, instantly making the Game Finder one of the most amazing tools on the site.
As is the case with all of these features, though, don't just take my word for it -- get in there and play with the options, and feel free to create the craziest searches you can think of. Because after spending any time with this tool, we believe that you'll be every bit as excited about it as we are.
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...needs a "overtime" selection button (for the games that went into OT and did not end in a tie)
Posted on 27-Aug-09 at 10:24 am | PermalinkCool stuff!
Here's a quick search showing how dominant Terrell Davis was in the playoffs for that 2 year stretch: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/tiny/5Mc8w
Posted on 27-Aug-09 at 4:10 pm | PermalinkMy boy Keith Lincoln: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/tiny/7VwEv
Posted on 27-Aug-09 at 5:42 pm | PermalinkGreat
Posted on 27-Aug-09 at 8:34 pm | PermalinkApparently, the only QB to win a game with a 0 for a passer rating did it against the Steelers...and what makes it worse--it was a Browns player!
No posting comments like that unless you provide a link, Dave!
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/tiny/3wIF5
Posted on 27-Aug-09 at 9:16 pm | PermalinkWarren Moon is the only player to throw for 300 yards and have a passer rating under 30.0: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/pgl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=game&year_min=1960&year_max=2008&age_min=0&age_max=99&league_id=&team_id=&opp_id=&game_type=R&game_num_min=0&game_num_max=99&game_location=&game_result=&is_active=&is_hof=&c1stat=pass_rating&c1comp=lt&c1val=30.0&c2stat=&c2comp=gt&c2val=&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=pass_yds (Does this just get smaller on its own? I'm new to this, heh)
Posted on 28-Aug-09 at 6:33 am | PermalinkLet's try this again with me being less stupid:
Warren Moon is the only player to throw for 300 yards and have a sub-30 passer rating: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/tiny/aLUEw
Posted on 28-Aug-09 at 6:34 am | PermalinkInteresting...only 12 players since 1960 have interceoted 4 passes in a game: 7 are from the 60s, two from the 70s, and one each for the 80s, 90s, and 00s.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/pgl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=game&year_min=1960&year_max=2008&age_min=0&age_max=99&league_id=&team_id=&opp_id=&game_type=R&game_num_min=0&game_num_max=99&game_location=&game_result=&is_active=&is_hof=&c1stat=def_int&c1comp=gt&c1val=4&c2stat=&c2comp=gt&c2val=&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=def_int
Posted on 28-Aug-09 at 9:54 am | PermalinkA great trivia: name the only player since 1960 to have punted for at least 700 yards in a game.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/pgl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=game&year_min=1960&year_max=2008&age_min=0&age_max=99&league_id=&team_id=&opp_id=&game_type=R&game_num_min=0&game_num_max=99&game_location=&game_result=&is_active=&is_hof=&c1stat=punt_yds&c1comp=gt&c1val=700&c2stat=&c2comp=gt&c2val=&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=eq&c4val=&order_by=age
Posted on 28-Aug-09 at 9:58 am | PermalinkGreat stuff. It looks like right now, if I want to see the top performances in Pittsburgh in the last 25 years, I need to run two queries, one for Steelers in home games and one for their opponents in away games. Any chance of being able to do it one query?
Posted on 29-Aug-09 at 1:09 am | Permalink