Welcome back to the Next Gen Advantage, where each week we dive deep into the advanced statistics created through NFL Next Gen Stats player-tracking data to find little edges for fantasy managers. This week, we're heading back to the Receiver Tracking Metrics and looking at some run-stop matchups in Week 11. Let's dive in.
Receiver Tracking Metrics
I've been using our Receiver Tracking Metrics to identify buys and sells throughout the year in this space. Typically, I've been eyeballing individual players' RTM Scores -- focusing often on their Open Scores early in the year -- and comparing to production. But let's see what everyone's RTMs look like relative to their traditional outputs right now.
This chart below shows the RTM Overall Score -- a summary statistic that is the combination of Open Score, Catch Score and YAC Score -- on the x-axis and yards per route run on the y-axis. We can see there is a linear correlation between them, as we would expect. But not everyone is along the blue line -- and those are our targets, either to acquire or trade away.