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What The Hell Is This?

The genesis of my current project was a paper I found from 2009 by Wilson & Levine titled "NFL Player Rating Systems: An Investigation of the Passer Rating and Proposal for a Rusher Rating" (found here ). They call it a "rusher rating," however, due to the heavy inclusion of receiving statistics, I prefer to merely call it a running back rating. I have messed with trying to weight the rushing more heavily, but as this is a very, very side project for me, I haven't gotten around to really delving into it much. In any event, I have  managed to spend a fairly significant amount of time putting together a spreadsheet with several RBs from the past, as well as some present, plus every year from 1944 through today. Additionally, I've attempted to compare across eras by using, essentially, baseball's ERA+ method of comparing a player to their contemporaries, instead of utilizing the absolute number to try to compare across eras. I used Pro Football Refere...
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Final Season Leaders

Player Tm G Att Yds TD Rec Yds TD Fmb RBRat Kareem Hunt KAN 11 181 824 7 26 378 7 0 128.9 Todd Gurley* LAR 14 256 1251 17 59 580 4 1 125.6 James White NWE 16 94 425 5 87 751 7 0 124.5 Melvin Gordon* LAC 12 175 885 10 50 490 4 1 123.6 Alvin Kamara NOR 15 194 883 14 81 709 4 1 121.2 Saquon Barkley* NYG 16 261 1307 11 91 721 4 0 115.4 Phillip Lindsay* DEN 15 192 1037 9 35 241 1 0 111.7 Nick Chubb CLE 16 192 996 8 20 149 2 0 108.7 Christian McCaffrey CAR 16 219 1098 7 107 867 6 4 104.6 Derrick Henry TEN 16 215 1059 12 15 99 0 1 102.1 Joe Mixon CIN ...
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Week 17 - 2018

Player Team Rush Yds TD Rec Yds TD Fmb RBRat Saquon Barkley NYG 17 109 1 4 33 0 0 127.4 Zach Zenner DET 21 93 1 1 30 0 0 127.1 Alfred Morris SF 16 111 1 1 4 0 0 118.5 Chris Carson SEA 19 122 1 1 7 0 0 118.3 Jordan Howard CHI 21 109 2 1 5 0 0 115.7 CJ Anderson LAR 23 132 1 3 22 0 0 114.7 Damien Williams KC 11 51 1 1 8 0 0 114.6 Rod Smith DAL 12 35 1 2 14 0 0 97.2 LeSean McCoy BUF 10 26 1 2 18 0 0 97.1 Derrick Henry TEN 16 93 0 1 13 0 0 96.4 Chris Ivory BUF 14 45 0 1 45 0 0 87.1 Cameron Artis-Payne CAR 16 56 1 2 2 0 0 86.6 Josh Adams PHI ...
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Season Leaders

Player Tm G Att Yds TD Rec Yds TD Fmb RBRat Kareem Hunt KAN 11 181 824 7 26 378 7 0 128.9 Melvin Gordon* LAC 11 165 843 10 47 466 4 1 126.5 Todd Gurley* LAR 14 256 1251 17 59 580 4 1 125.6 James White NWE 15 90 395 5 83 712 6 0 121.6 Alvin Kamara NOR 15 194 883 14 81 709 4 1 121.2 Aaron Jones GNB 12 133 728 8 26 206 1 1 115.3 Saquon Barkley* NYG 15 244 1198 10 87 688 4 0 114.3 Nick Chubb CLE 15 183 972 8 18 153 2 0 113.1 Phillip Lindsay* DEN 15 192 1037 9 35 241 1 0 111.7 Kenyan Drake MIA 15 109 492 4 48 425 5 1 109.2 Christian McCaffrey CAR 15 215 1080 7 ...
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