Oakland Raiders: A Measure of Team Strength for Context of Great Wide Receivers

May 20, 2011   ·   Damali Binta YAEL   ·   Jump to comments

Most people believe that the wide receivers are the guys who get the points in many of the NFL games. Here is a chart of data of several outstanding Oakland Raiders who were wide receivers.
One comparison uses only the first three years that each player was cited as the outstanding wide receiver. Other observations are made.
506 strongest team Branch 6 418 strongest team Biletnikoff 3 362 strongest team Wells 3 137     Brown 10 124 median   Powell 5 113     Christensen 3 37     Rice 2 -25     Fernandez 3 -268     Miller 3 -279 least strong Curry 2 One observation is that Cliff Branch, Fred Biletnikoff and Warren Wells were outstanding and if we use point difference as a measure of team strength, they were on stronger teams than some of the other wide receivers.
Here is another table:
Brown Wells Branch Powell Biletnikoff 418 Biletnikoff 3 of 3 72 7 60 4 117   362 Wells   3 of 3...

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