Corbin Young uses the Advanced Stat Explorer and other tools to look at the top running backs from the past week from a variety of angles. Each week, we’ll look at the leaders in advanced stats such as yards after contact, broken tackles, and evasion rates.
The box score will tell you who the leaders are in gaining yards and scoring touchdowns. But if you want a deeper knowledge of how RBs gain those yards — how many tackles they broke, how often they were hit at the line, how many yards they managed before meeting a tackler — then the RotoViz Advanced Stat Explorer has you covered.
Metrics like yards before and after contact, evasion rate, stuff rate, and designed gap rate tell you a lot about how a RB is using his blockers, how effective that blocking is, and effective that RB is at making would-be tacklers miss — all skills that translate into future production. In this way, the advanced RB stats can help us find waiver wire gems and trade targets before the rest of our league mates.
