New WR Efficiency Rating has Wolfpack’s Harmon at #21 in the nation

Everyone is pretty well versed on QB efficiency stats at this point, but why can’t we have something like that for other skill positions? Well, thanks to The Athletic’s NCAA wing called The All-American (a great new site btw) now we can…at least for WRs.

The All-American’s Wide Receiver Efficiency rankings are based on five statistical inputs: Yards receiving, touchdowns, yards per attempt, fumbles (also known as protection percentage) and opponent strength. Yards per attempt includes catches and targets. Opponent strength is based on Cody Kellner’s strength of schedule ratings at kellnerratings.com.

Yards receiving accounts for 30 percent of the formula, touchdowns 20 percent, yards per attempt 20 percent, protection percentage 10 percent and opponent strength 20 percent. Each input is standardized to the mean of the data set. A rating of 5 would signify an average efficiency rating among all players that qualified for consideration this week. Players must have a minimum number of six catches per game, on average, to qualify.

Other than opponent strength, all data is derived from SportSource Analytics. (The All-American)

This, for us at least, is pretty exciting. A new stat, a new way to rank WRs. You can bet that we’ll be paying close attention to this since we believe Harmon will end up being one of the nation’s top WRs by the end of his career (maybe the end of this season.)

Stay tuned, we’re going to have a lot more on Kelvin Harmon coming up in the next week or so. Matthew has taken a lot of time, compiled a lot of stats that project some pretty amazing things from this kid. We took a look at his start this past week.