Game quality
What each result was worth beyond the score. Every play is graded by EPA (expected points added), then adjusted for who it came against: a defence's rating is what it allowed to everyone else that season, so a big day against a bad defence counts for less. Season views include playoff games.
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Adj EPA / dropback
+0.283
Raw EPA / dropback
+0.317
Dropbacks
235
Turnover EPA
+0.0
WPA
+1.47
| Week | Opp | Dropbacks | Adj EPA/db | Raw EPA/db | Schedule | Total adj EPA | INT / FL | Turnover EPA | Sacks | Sack EPA | WPA | CPOE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NO | 40 | +0.139 | +0.146 | -0.007 | +5.6 | 0 / 0 | +0.0 | 1 | -0.5 | -0.03 | -2.9 |
| 2 | BUF | 42 | +0.468 | +0.442 | +0.025 | +19.6 | 0 / 0 | +0.0 | 4 | -7.7 | +0.04 | +6.0 |
| 3 | NYJ | 34 | +0.249 | +0.357 | -0.108 | +8.5 | 0 / 0 | +0.0 | 2 | -4.4 | +0.65 | +6.9 |
| 4 | CAR | 53 | +0.195 | +0.233 | -0.038 | +10.3 | 0 / 0 | +0.0 | 1 | -0.4 | +0.18 | -1.8 |
| 5 | ARI | 33 | +0.403 | +0.496 | -0.093 | +13.3 | 0 / 0 | +0.0 | 3 | -5.4 | +0.26 | +0.3 |
| 7 | GB | 33 | +0.282 | +0.279 | +0.003 | +9.3 | 0 / 0 | +0.0 | 1 | -1.4 | +0.38 | -1.0 |
Opponent adjustment. A unit's rating for a game is its average over its other games that
season, blended with 16 games' worth of prior (league average plus half of last season's gap from it;
24 games for pass defence, which is noisier). Early in a season that leans on last year; by
midseason it is mostly this year. Chosen by how well it predicts a held-out game: it cut that error by about
a quarter against no shrinkage, and adjusted numbers agree between odd and even weeks more than raw ones do
(team EPA margin r 0.52 → 0.55, defence 0.32 → 0.36, QB EPA/dropback 0.47 → 0.49, 2016–2025).
Win expectancy is a logistic fit of wins on EPA margin over 6,036 completed games (it names the winner 86.5% of the time). These describe what happened; one game is not a forecast. Play-by-play credits the quarterback with every sack and dropback, so a bad line shows up in his numbers. Seasons 2016–2026, built 2026-10-28 11:05 UTC, from nflverse. Write-up:
Win expectancy is a logistic fit of wins on EPA margin over 6,036 completed games (it names the winner 86.5% of the time). These describe what happened; one game is not a forecast. Play-by-play credits the quarterback with every sack and dropback, so a bad line shows up in his numbers. Seasons 2016–2026, built 2026-10-28 11:05 UTC, from nflverse. Write-up:
backtests/nfl_game_quality/FINDINGS.md.