NFL launches new stats page tracking league and team trends

The NFL has been tracking all sorts of statistics and trends for about a decade through its Next Gen Stats. Making it easier to understand for casual fans is the next step. The NFL launched a new statistics page on its website on Thursday called Next Gen Trends that takes all of the raw tracking data gathered by the league and AWS and turns it into a tool that shows how tendencies and formations have evolved throughout the league and creates a “strategic fingerprint” for every team. “We’ve had and created so many different stats over the years. What we haven’t necessarily done for the fans at home is present it in the most digestible way possible,” said Mike Band, the NFL’s senior manager of Next Gen Stats research and analytics. “We really want to create a tool that is data-vis driven, that is free to fans, and that is approachable so that you don’t have to be an expert statistician or an expert analyst to understand what is being presented in this tool.” There are two mai