By John Bush

Snaps Per Minute Week 1 2018

Snaps Per Minute Week 1 2018 report covers players like running backs, wide receivers and tight ends in a team’s lineup. A majority of snaps are going to what players and which ones are in line to produce statistically weekly in fantasy football. The Snaps per Minute of Possession report will help you: identify the early leaders for such production.

Identify the leaders for such production.

Identify Weekly Change at the Team, Positional and Player Levels

The Snap Report can be a positive indicator because it’s easier for players to score more when given the opportunity.

Conversely, the weekly ‘Snap Report’ can identify when players fall out of favor or when game flow or player movement occurs due to injuries.

It’s useful to compare the weekly snap leaders to rushing attempt leaders and target leaders to get a feel for how a player is used for fantasy football purposes. See other reports

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TEAM Snaps Per Minute Table and Graph

This is a data “Snapshot” of each teams activities and speed of play. The Avg Team Snaps/Minute give insight into the team’s speed. A highly involved pass catcher player on a fast team is worth knowing! Also looking at slow teams can give insight to rush heavy teams

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PIT, CLE, DET, BUF, HOU, ATL, and IND are the Fastest NFL teams from week 1 Again key players in those teams are being given more opportunity but the team could be fast as they are very good. Fast teams can have more passing opportunities. Also, the inverse can be found that fast teams are poor productive teams. One must tease out the data.

The slowest teams (NYJ, CIN, MIA, TB, WAS, DEN, JAX and DAL) certainly have key players but they must be more efficient to overcome the slow team pace. Alternatively, the teams are so good that they jump ahead and slow it down! (NO). Slow teams tend to have stronger rushing players.

Players from slower teams that are highly ranked may be worth more than thought. Dynasty players take note here!

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TEAM vs Positional Speed in Snaps per Minute For the Season

Use these tables to determine what teams are using their RB, TE, and WRs faster (Snaps per Min). Faster could equal more chances to score! I have included a nice visual view of this data to further burn into your thinking!

I would you to realize in this and other reports on targets and attempt, that I can not catch everything. I expect my readers to dig and question the reasons why. I have set up my reports to annotate the tops and bottom via colorization. I display team, team positional and player level metrics. This report takes time for me and it is done because I would not depend on Data lists and Player names, I want more ways to “see” the metrics!

I include here the positions in each team with the Avg of Player Snaps Per Minute. (Typo replace Sum with Average ). I also include two ratios. WR/RB get the team level relationship between WR vs RB usages. The WR/TE give the ratio of WR to TE usages by the team. High numbers indicate the highest usage for WRs vs either RB or TE while lower number the exact opposite. Understanding team usages give you a view at the landscape level to fine-tune waivers and lineups. WRs on high usage team might be better than those lower usage teams! Note Dark Green are high ratios vs Red indicate lower WR usages.

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• ARI High WR
• ATL Low WR
• BAL very low TE
• BUF High WR

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• CAR low WR
• CHI avg WR
• CIN low TE
• CLE low TE

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• DAL OK WR
• DEN Lower WR
• DET Very High WRs
• GB Low TE

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• HOU Low TE
• IND Low TE
• JAX low WR
• KC low WR

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• LAC Low RB TE
• LAR Low RB TE
• MIA Low TE
• MIN High WR

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• NE Poor WR
• NO OK WR
• NYG Low TE
• NYJ Low WRs

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• OAK Low TE
• PHI Low RB
• PIT OK WR
• SEA Ok WR

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• SF Poor WR
• TB Low TE
• TEN Low TE
• WAS Low TE

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RB, TE, and WR POSITIONAL USAGEs in Weeks 1.

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Running Backs

RB Highest Speed By Team

The plotted data clearly defines NE, CAR, JAX, SF, and KC are biased to the RB vs the WR in the league. DET, LAR, BUF, PHI, TB, and GB were biased to the WR over the RBs! 

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TIGHT ENDs

TEs Highest Speed

NYJ, JAX, BAL, WAS, HOU and NE are more biased to the TE usage vs WRs

DET, LAR, ARI, LAC, PIT, BUF and NO are biased to the WR vs the TE.

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Wide Receivers

WRs Highest Speed

PIT, BUF, CLE, ARI. LAC and LAR were using WRs vs NYJ, JAX, WAS, NE, and CAR

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Players Snaps per Minute Segmented by Position

The following are all the RBs, TEs, and WRs who recorded a snap in week 1.

In the tables below, Running Backs, Tight Ends, and Wide Receivers position snap numbers are presented!

Green coloring of the Snaps Per Minute numbers denotes the players at the top of the position of the weekly snap count while red coloring of the weekly snap numbers denotes the players at the bottom of the position snap count.

I like to ease through the table to spot interesting information. I would modify opinions based on the data unless you should not! 🙂

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Running Backs

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Tight Ends

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Wide Receivers

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Player vs. Team Landscapes of Usages as measured by Snaps per Minute!

Color-coded view of each team’s positional players and their Snaps per Minute. Easily compare the Team’ RBs TEs, and or WRs. Spot the surprises. FYI I sorted by W14 Data for a better view.

Waiver Wire fodder and information for dropping and adding players.

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Interesting Players Selected by Snaps Per Minute Data. Watch or Add Potential

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