Day: April 12, 2025

Running Backs: Can The Star-Predictor Score (SPS) Help Predict NFL Success?

For the 53rd entry in our “Does It Matter?” series, we explore how effectively the Running Back Star-Predictor Score (SPS), found here, forecasts the future success of running backs while using it as a scouting tool. This study explores the SPS’s ability to predict career success and will establish the ideal benchmark for player assessment. […]

Can College All-Purpose Yardage Predict A Quarterbacks’ NFL Success?

In Part 53 of our “Does It Matter?” series, we explored the predictive power of a quarterback’s top college yardage season on NFL success. We found a threshold which you should hope your favorite athletes to achieve, and applied standard statistical methods. Here are all of our findings: Methodology To structure our study, we collected […]