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*Ranking DSFL Safeties by Stats. - GotDatWeeFee - 07-25-2020 What’s up everyone! I’m back with another stat based rankings. Since the last one was about corners and the fact that stats don’t always paint the best picture for defensive backs, I figured I would keep that going and rank safeties. For the sake of repetition, I decided to just combine both free safeties and strong safeties. I was considering combining all defensive backs, but I felt there was a big enough difference with cornerbacks to justify ranking them separately. Although I felt the roles were different enough to rank them separately, I felt there stats held the same value, so I kept the scoring scale the same. Scoring Breakdown Tackles: 1 Point Tackles for Loss: 2 Points Plays Defended: 5 Points Forced Fumbles/Fumbles Recovered: 5 Points Each Blocked P/XP/FG: 5 Points Each Interception: 10 Points Safety: 15 Points Touchdown: 20 Points One of the things I was most curious about when combining the two positions together I wondered if one position would be clearly more dominant over the other. From what we can see from the data, is that towards the top and bottom it seems to be even switching off from rank to rank. In the middle though you five free safeties in a row and then you get eight strong safeties in a row. I personally found this neat. It seems that free safeties ranked slightly better overall, but I don’t think one safety group is clearly better than the other based on just these rankings alone. *Ranking DSFL Safeties by Stats. - Rusfan - 07-25-2020 Seal of approval from me *Ranking DSFL Safeties by Stats. - The_Kidd - 07-26-2020 should've brought it up in the first part, it's more apropos here --- in the DSFL most definitely, a good portion of DB's play out of position based on team structure and depth chart. More talented players usually go to the outside, sometimes slower DB's get put in the slot(ergo playing a whole different role), sometimes the least talented person plays up high regardless of their position(trends I noticed digging through the sim this season) Not sure if that would better clarify why certain players seem to have an advantage or disadvantage over others despite being "listed" as the same positional designation, but it could help provide context