Scaled Tape Scores

Scaled Tape Scores are a metric to evaluate professional football players, based on their grades from Bleacher Report's NFL1000 project. The goal of these Scaled Tape Scores is to remove scout idiosyncrasies and allow grades to be analyzed in a cross positional manner. Think of these scores as the percentile a player is performing at their position. A score of 100 would be the best performance possible, and a score of 0 would be the worst performance possible. Obviously it is not possible to average the best or worst performance over multiple weeks, as those are individual parameters. Over the course of a season, our functional range is tighter than that. It's important to note tape analysis is a subjective process. So while Scaled Tape Scores are not perfect, they are meant to provide a quantitative look at how NFL players are performing, from evaluators who watch every snap.

You can find the updated data here.

Also included in these tables is Position Adjusted Variance, which is abbreviated to PAVAR in the tables. PAVAR is meant to showcase the game to game consistency of each player. Higher numbers mean more variance in Scaled Score, and less consistent week to week play.