I no longer have access to their sortable, premium stats but I do have access to some BS, version 1 of an Atari football game chart
Can someone tell me if the Fantasy Gold has the data that was part of the Premium Stats in some form or fashion or is that information no longer available in any shape?
Hey, PFF, really good business model. Change your format and paid content for paying customer mid season of football
Any help appreciated
I agree mid-season it was not a good idea. Sadly I also imagine people can ask for and get a refund but few will.
As someone else said, I heard it had to do with the NFL teams. About the same time PFF did this, team reporters (team website, not local reporter from local paper) started tweeting some pff stats each week. It's been "on the regular" and never before so ...I think it has to do with NFL teams.
Every PFF guy seems very nice and engaging by emails. Just ask
Personally, I started to get upset with their OL stats. Titans were on about their 4th string OL due to injuries and some of them were getting roasted and PFF was giving favorable scores. I re-watched and focused as best I could on the linemen they gave nice scores too. My thoughts were very much not favorable. I have read others discuss how some DB stats were not correct IE this CB was not on that WR much at all. I didn't find what they listed so I could not verify that PFF posted anything incorrectly. I did notice a PFF person saying how a S was doing very well against TEs so don't start that TE and...he was wrong, that team used a LB on the TE almost exclusively.
PFF was extremely highly regarded. This flack from people came out initially but went away. It had been some time since people questioned the validity of their stats. I think it's possible they made this change to turn that faucet off too. That's not good for their brand.
When I saw a deal with ESPN...big kudos to them of course. What FF site wouldn't like that? Still we all know ESPN has their own statistics dept. I wondered and half-expect some sort of takeover or agreeable buyout where the typical PFF stats become ESPN stats. It doesn't seem like sound business to have two staffs (ESPNs and PFFs) looking at the same NFL stats all day. I imagine like Florio and Rosenthal with MSNBC years ago, we'll see Clay and them used similarly and a big smile on their face as they think of their bank accounts.
