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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 5546364, member: 1674"]
A couple thoughts on this chart:
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[*]Coleman's YPRR is significantly better than Shakir's.
[*]I think you can argue this both ways: Coleman's YPRR is decent while having literally the worst separation in the league; maybe this suggests if he continues to develop, he could really break out. On the flipside, you could argue that maybe the YPRR is a fluke and the lack of separation is actually a better indicator of future YPRR. Having said that, I think analytical studies generally say the YPRR is king when it comes to forecasting future production.
[*]The scale for separation is -2 to +2, but the Y-axis only goes from roughly -0.25 to +0.25; if you put it on the -2 to +2 scale that separation is measured on, it would basically look like Coleman isn't an outlier at all separation wise. What is the actual difference between someone generating -0.22 in separation vs. the mass of other WRs that around 0.00?
[*]I think separation data in general is just very wonky/inconsistent and also tends to favor slot WRs over boundary WRs and especially over X receivers. We also don't know how they're even measuring separation; is it measured at the catch point, measured coming out of their break, just generally measuring the max amount of separation they have in a given play?
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It's not really clear to me that we should care all that much about the separation axis, especially compared to the YPRR where Coleman is doing perfectly fine.
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