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ShareThisFeature Watch: League Total Pages
Have you seen our league totals pages? If not, here's what you can find on them:
- Offensive and defensive league totals/per-team & per-game averages
- League scoring totals/per-team & per-game averages
- League rushing totals/per-team & per-game averages
- League passing totals/per-team & per-game averages
- League kick/punt return totals/per-team & per-game averages
- League kicking & punting totals/per-team & per-game averages
In addition to the NFL pages listed above, we also have the same stats for the following non-NFL leagues:
- AFL - American Football League (1960-1969)
- AFL - NFL Combined
- AAFC - All America Football Conference (1946-1949)
- APFA - America Professional Football Association
And if you want to look at professional football as a whole, we also have a page for All Leagues Combined.
These pages are useful for seeing how the game has changed over the years -- for instance, the evolution of the passing game in the NFL on a per-team basis:
| Year | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 324 | 532 | 3495 | 22 | 16 |
| 2004 | 305 | 511 | 3369 | 23 | 16 |
| 1999 | 309 | 541 | 3396 | 22 | 18 |
| 1994 | 312 | 538 | 3418 | 21 | 17 |
| 1989 | 286 | 512 | 3374 | 21 | 20 |
| 1984 | 288 | 512 | 3294 | 22 | 21 |
| 1979 | 251 | 464 | 2886 | 19 | 21 |
| 1974 | 194 | 370 | 2145 | 15 | 19 |
| 1969 | 209 | 397 | 2485 | 20 | 19 |
| 1964 | 200 | 388 | 2431 | 20 | 19 |
| 1959 | 155 | 310 | 2038 | 16 | 18 |
| 1954 | 178 | 353 | 2299 | 18 | 25 |
| 1949 | 153 | 328 | 1932 | 17 | 25 |
| 1944 | 82 | 192 | 1175 | 11 | 21 |
| 1939 | 95 | 224 | 1417 | 10 | 21 |
| 1934 | 46 | 146 | 647 | 5 | 19 |
These stats are also good for cross-era statistical normalization, like the process I used here. So go ahead and check the league total pages out, and let us know what you think either in the comments below, or at bugs@sports-reference.com. Enjoy!
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 1:50 pm and is filed under Site Features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I look at that kind of stuff a lot, but I usually have to create them myself using the seasons data I download from here and that doesn't included everything I need.
Good stuff. More hours of work time wasted for me.
I don't if this is too much to ask for, but can you also add a league total page for player height/weight by position?
Fantastic. This place just keeps getting better