One of the biggest projects at our company is The SIS NFL Draft Website. This is a combined effort from our Operations team and our R&D team. In total, we’ll publish more than 300 scouting reports, about 200 of which are on the site right now.

Last week we looked at what the scouting reports on our site looked like. Today, we’ll show an extension of that in our player ratings and stats.

In addition of providing an overall grade on a player, our Scouts rate that player in specific skills. They assess a series of critical factors and positional factors. These are found within the player overview tab below a list of strengths and weaknesses.

These are our ratings for Texas Tech edge rusher David Bailey, our No. 2 ranked player on our Big Board. In all, he’s graded in 15 different areas. Different positions have different factors.

On our glossary page we explain the different traits and what each trait grade number means.

Player stats are featured in two sections of the website. One is on the individual player pages themselves. The other is in a separate section so that you can see full lists of how players rank, compared to other draft prospects who play that position, in different stats.

The SIS R&D team has created a set of metrics by which to evaluate players based on everything our Data Scouts chart throughout the season. That includes our all-encompassing player value stat Total Points Per Game, which is abbreviated as TPTS Per Game (learn more about Total Points here). In Bailey’s case, there are position-specific stats such as Pres%± (Pressure Percentage Plus Minus), which compares Bailey’s pressure rate to an expected rate based on alignment, situation, and other factors.

This is a statistical overview for Bailey, which is located on his player page. You can see why he’s the No. 2 player on our Big Board given that he ranks No. 1 among edge rusher prospects in seven different stats. The different stats are all explained in our glossary section.

Go to the Stats tab on Bailey’s page and you’ll find plenty more. There are five different tabs that show how he fared throughout his career at Stanford and Texas Tech.

Lastly, in the Stats section of the website itself, you can see full leaderboards for all the different numbers (via five different tabs). Bailey is at the top of most of the lists.

“We have everything from your basic box score stats down to a wealth of proprietary metrics you won't get anywhere else,” said SIS VP of Analytics Alex Vigderman. “For each position we've curated the metrics we think tell the best story about a player. Our ability to do this is the product of a lot of work from our R&D and engineering teams that have spent years making sure we are providing accurate and insightful information.”

We’ll conclude our reintroduction to the NFL Draft Website next week. In the meantime, head on over and see it for yourself!

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Our NFL Draft Website is a great resource. We’ve got scouting reports on 100 of the top players, with many more to come (we’ll have more than 300 when we’re done). With that, we’ve got ratings and rankings. It’s basically everything a GM would want to know.

Our statistical information package includes Total Points, our proprietary metric that values everything that happens on the field, as well as position-specific performance data in the form of raw totals, averages, and percentile rankings. And we explain our stats in our glossary.

And check out our NFL Draft Matrix, where you can see all our rankings at a glance …

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