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Originally Posted by cdcox
Of all the players that return punts or kicks in the NFL in a given year, only a few of them return enough kicks to have something that could be considered a large enough sample size to treat as representative. Those returners that have a sufficient number of returns, are included in the database by name, and you get the specific stats of that player. I take all of the other players who have returned a smaller number of punts or kicks and lump them together and generate statistics that represent "any old joe" on your roster that might be pressed into service returning kicks or punts. Those are the stats that are used for "free agent".
Of the players you listed, none of them returned more than 9 punts or kicks the entire year, so they're NFL team didn't exactly view them as difference makers in the return game. So the program basically determined that they were examples of "any old joe" and put one of them back there (unnamed) to return the kick/punt.
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I hear you. Again, don't take this as griping, because I enjoy the whole testing experience...
Part of this roster takeover included me looking at the KR/PR situation.
I was moved by your explanation of talent that was roughly:
NFL star>guy with some stats>some named guy on a team>street free agent
If this is not the case for PR/KR, then both of those specific positions become MUCH more valuable as a commodity.