NYL Pass Protection Index

[dbair1967]

I'll do some further research on this to see how its calculated etc etc, but apparently its something thats put together via STATS. Through week 4, our OL ranks 6th overall and last week was tied with Oakland for the highest single game rating of the season, a 109.6 rating. Appears they take a pretty in depth look at the way a teams OL performs in the pass game.

Here's a blurb from the page:

The New York Life Protection Index is the authoritative measure of a team’s aptitude in pass protection. In today’s football, the ‘golden age’ of passing, a pro football team’s ability to protect the quarterback is a key attribute to winning games. The New York Life Protection Index was created by sports information leader STATS to provide a composite gauge for this undervalued component of the game. While the New York Life Protection Index is calculated using a proprietary formula, the fundamentals are comprised of the length of a team’s pass attempts combined with penalties by offensive linemen, sacks allowed and quarterback hurries and knockdowns. The New York Life Protection Index is updated weekly throughout the regular season.

http://newyorklife.stats.com/fb/protection.asp?type=overall

The top-10 in order are:

Buffalo, New England, Tennessee, New Orleans, Oakland, Dallas, Detroit, Carolina, San Diego & Green Bay. The link above will take you to the page. It keeps up with the total rating plus each teams individual game ratings.

 

[Cythim]

Interesting stat. The Detroit game really pushed Dallas up the list thanks to Garrett's game plan. Before Detroit we were at 65.8 points, which was good enough for 15th place tied with Washington.