How to Measure Team Age in the N.F.L. and What It Means for 2010 By CHASE STUART - May 6, 2010 Chase Stuart writes for the Pro-Football-Reference.com blog. What is the most useful way to measure the average age of an N.F.L. team ? Calculating the average age of a 53-man roster takes you only so far because the age of a team’s starters is much more relevant than the age of a team’s reserves. The average age of a team’s starting lineup isn’t perfect, either. The age of the quarterback and key offensive and defensive players should count for more than the age of a rotational starter. The best way to calculate a team’s functional average age is to place greater weight on the age of a team’s most relevant players. I used Pro-Football-Reference’s Approximate Value system to find the true age of the roster of every team in the league. I calculated team age by weighing each player’s age proportionately to his percentage of contribution (as measured by the Approximate Value system) to his team for each player and team in the 2009 season . . . rest of article > http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/... Down - The New York Times N.F.L. Blog&st=cse
Actually, she did what I told her to do, so she got it. Would like if she posted the most relevant part of the article, but this is much better. Johnny's posts in the depth thread aren't wrong. As someone who runs a blog myself, I hate when my stuff gets reprinted elsewhere without as much as a link...
It's odd that they do this article now, before rosters are even set. The Pats could end up being the youngest team before it's all said and done, with the number of rookies they are bringing into camp.
In the secondary the Jets are young. In the backfield, the Jets are young (except for LT but he's a role player). Offensive line, Jets are young. Receiver, Jets are young. And of course QB, Jets are young. Front 7 we're pretty damn old tho
What this article doesn't say is that we already have guys ready to step in in place of the two older guys on the team (T-Rich and Woody)... take those 38yrs out of the equation and we suddendly become a young offense again
I'll take older and wiser than younger and inexperienced any day of the week. Older hurts you in stamina but makes up for it in knowledge. The Pats are the oldest team and boy have they sucked for years now, right?
I agree, but it's not the entire front 7. ILB isn't too bad with Harris and Scott. The other 5 though, old.
Any NFL study about a team's average age is inherently flawed and stupid in my mind. But I'm pretty sure this system weighs key players at key positions more. So I don't know if rookies would have that big of an impact, especially mostly ones for depth.
Yeah you're right. I was thinking about the OLB position a whole with Thomas, Taylor, and Pace. We could definitely add some youth to that position, where as ILB should be fine for a few seasons as long as we get Harris under contract.
Well the article does mention that it's weighing starters mostly, but I think it's entirely possible that a rookie or 3 makes it onto NE's starting squad, thus lowering the average age. Not that any of that really matters to me.
All that article does is provide the average age but does not give any positive or negative correlation either way. It's like the author only did half the research, stopped, and wrote an article about it instead of figuring out if any of that raw data MEANS anything.
The Jets most important and irreplaceable players are for the most part on the correct side of 26. I don't think it is much of a worry all.
