What is this stuff?  Other offensive stats just consider how
many passes, and how many goals.  This attempts to break
down further the passes both thrown and caught.  Basically,
the system gives more points for a longer completed pass or
a shorter pass that breaks the mark to a wide open receiver.
A team requires 6-8 points of throws to score a goal.  Short
passes are worth 1, 10-25 yarders are 2, 25-40 are 4, and
hucks are worth 6.  Add these up to get gross thrower points
(TP) or receiver points (RP).  To get net points, subtract
for throwaways or drops:  -6 for a short one, -5 for a
middle, and -3 for a huck, reflecting the opponents field
position and their ability to get a fast break going.  It
would probably be better to incorporate where on the field
it happens, but that is a needless complication.  One
problem is that zone points are overcompensated, so perhaps
counting zone dump/swings as 1/2 might do the trick, but it
was too much work for now. I see two uses of this:<p>
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<ul><li>1)  It quantifies how much turnovers hurt a person's value,
and  
<li>2)  It shows a player's relative worth as a thrower vs as a
receiver, in the confines of the offense.  Players with TP
significantly greater than RP help the offense more with
their throws than with their cuts, while the converse is
also true.  Players with high ratios of points to throws do
a lot with their throws, while those with small ratios
either turn it over a lot or make short throws or cuts.</ul> 
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It's just another analytical tool available.<p>
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Note:  The stats were taken by someone else, so I can't
vouch for their accuracy.  There are some minor
discrepancies, but they are more or less accurate.
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I've also tried a few other weighting schemes.  In the accessible <a
href=alternate.yp.html> chart</a>, Method 1 is described above, so
medium passes are worth twice as much as short passes.  In Method 2,
short passes are worth 0.7 pts., while medium ones are worth 2.1, for
a 3x value of medium to short.  In Method 3, the weight is medium=2.5,
short=0.5, or 5x.  In Method 4, completions are worth the same as in
Method 1, but turnover penalties are doubled.<p> 
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