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ShareThisPFR 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 approaching a significant milestone like 150 touchdowns scored or who is about to make a leap on a leaderboard such as third on the all-time receiving yards list with just 123 more yards.
Enjoy and see which milestones are about to be reached.
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Very neat. This will help settle some bets, for sure!
Nifty
Minor oddness when two players are tied, for instance receiving TDs. Galloway and Ward are both tied at 22nd with 77, but Galloway's says needs 1 to move into 22nd and Ward's says needs 3 to move into 20th place.
A neat addition to the site
This is a great!
I'm outraged that Fumbles is not a category. After all, Favre is within 3 fumbles of the all-time record. Which I've been rooting for him to get all season but have been sorely dissapointed.
Who holds the record now, BC?
Wow, touchdowns have been a lot easier to come by in the last fifteen or so years.
BigCheese: Perhaps incomplete passes should be too
DD-F: Warren Moon
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/fumbles_career.htm
MattieShoes: True, but Fumbles is a category that the site keeps track off. If you look at Favre's page you'll see he's listes as Career 2nd in it, and if you go to the Leaders & Records page, it has it's own entry.
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Passes Intercepted DEFINITELY should be in as well though. And probably Fumbles recovered, times sacked, punt and kick-off return yards, and games started. I mean, they have number of punts in there!
this has nothing to do with this blog post.. I'm just putting this question out there.. is it possible to get a play by play (like on Baseball Reference) of every game since '66?
Re: post #9: it is about time for play-by-play outcomes!!!!!!!
Who in the heck is holding out? The NFL? The ELIAS Sports bureau? WHO??? What gives?
Inquiring minds ought to be informed as to who/what is holding up the SHOW!
Football Outsiders has been researching play by play logs. I think as recently as 1995 they had to contact individual teams for the info. It sounds like the information is just not easily available - if it exists at all.
Has the 1,000,000th point been scored in the NFL? If so, who was it, if not, how close are they? Is there any such stat or record keeping for the NFL? I was a big baseball fan as a kid and remember when Bob Watson scored the 1,000,000th run in baseball history in 1975.
That's a shame that the Play by Play of games (especially from '66 on) don't exist or are hard to get. there seems to be a 'new' stat going on in the NFL now thanks to Billick doing games on Fox. It's something that he and Bill Walsh wrote about in the '97 book (the name escapes me, forgive me). But you have the +/- ratio for turnovers. Now there is a +/- ration for explosive plays. Explosive plays on offense, and explosive plays given up on defense/special teams.
I'd love to some research (using play by play because unless it's a TD, how do I know how many times Starr hit Dowler for a 25+ yard gain?) with the Super Bowl teams to see who would have the better +/- ratio incorporating the explosive play factor.
Feel free to e-mail me at coach.baker@comcast.net if u wanna discuss this, or post here
ESPN has play-by-play for the last few years games (for instance, http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/playbyplay?gameId=261015018), but there's probably some legal reason why PFR can't scrape them. I was thinking about writing something to scrape them so *I* could play with them, but I do agree it'd be super-cool if they were here.
Dave, I wrote something about "Big play margin" back at the sabernomics blog about four years ago. Give it a read if you're interested.