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Goal

Interactively compare NFL player’s performance within positions. Only QB, WR, TE, and RB from Next Gen Stats 2023 season using {nflreadr}.

Target Outcomes

1. Select and compare player performance within positions
2. Visualize the distribution of player performance within positions
3. List custom player ranking within positions

Questions

1. How does my select player compare to other players within and across position’s performance statistics?
2. How do players perform overall across performance statistics?
3. What are player’s overall performance for select statistics?

Design

• 4 navbar tabs for each position
  • Sidebar: Position statistics selection and descriptions - will be passed to plots below
  • Select tab
    • Players selection
    • Season-average heatmap
    • Season-wide boxplots - interactive
  • Explore tab
    • Players selection
    • Season-wide scatterplot - interactive
    • Season-average vs. variance scatterplot - interactive

Data

Two types of player statistics:

1. Season-wide (each week)
2. Season-average (average over weeks)

Three positions:

1. Quarterback (QB)
2. Wide receiver (WR)
3. Tight End (TE)
4. Running back (RB)

Performance statistics:

1. QB: 18
2. WR: 12
3. TE: 12
4. RB: 11