While 90% of my content is geared toward offensive stats/metrics/players, I still want to educate others & contribute to growing the IDP analytics landscape

With my Disruption Score™, I believe I’m doing that.

Here is a 2020 update on the IDP metric I created last offseason!

What is Disruption Score, you may ask?

Essentially, it summarizes how effective a player was getting behind the line of scrimmage and *disrupting* the play. Whether pressuring the QB, getting a sack, batting a pass, or forcing a fumble, Disruption Score puts it all in one metric

TL;DR

Here are the 2019-20 Disruption Score leaders, with dynasty buys in bold (under 25 years old)

Here, you can find the breakdown of the top 100 Disruption Scores since 2003-04 (new additions in the top 100 from last year in orange)

Here are those top 25 seasons in a table, with sacks and QB hits shown as just pieces of the puzzle

A truly elite season= 60+ Disruption Score

When I debuted the score, a lot of people instantly asked if this is actually a predictive stat

The answer is YES!

There have been 49 disruption scores since 2003-04 of 60+

Of the 35 to play the next year, they AVERAGED 9.5 sacks

That’s a massive edge to see a full year ahead

While it isn’t a LB/DB metric necessarily, the cream still rises to the top regardless of designation. An elite Disruption Score for DL is 60+, but you can draw similar analysis from LBs averaging 25+ for their careers

When looking for some IDP dynasty buys, it’s good to find players who break out young (and at stellar pace).

Players in bold have less than 3 eligible seasons (25+ tackles) so far in their career, with Disruption Scores at a very promising rate.

I foolishly only checked this during one week last season, but when I did, disparities between Disruption Score and Sack % have HUGE predictive insights into future sack regression candidates. Could’ve made some decent money last season.... https://www.twitter.com/RyanMillerNFL/status/1181019599657152512

Another cool way to visualize this data is to look at career arcs to see if a certain breakout year is fluky or not, and this is something I can easily pull up for anyone curious about a young IDP talent!

Once again, here are the top 25 Disruption Scores from last season (players under 25 in bold)

Don’t forget that @JJWatt was on a monster run before his injury. I can’t wait to watch him this season, & hopefully push for all those Disruption records Cam Wake holds at 33+ y/o

I’ll be back with #SFBX strategy tomorrow, but if you haven’t given IDP a shot before I highly recommend it! I’ve learned more about the game of football after joining an IDP league than I ever did before that. It truly changes how you watch the game, and is so much fun to try!