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Originally Posted by Chaka

Well, here a stat (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average - DVOA) at Football Outsiders which purports to measure the quality of a defense based upon their opponents, among many of other factors such as defensive situations, home-road influences, etc. The goal is obviously to come up with a more meaningful read on the basic statistics that I mentioned in my prior post.

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamdef

After considering these factors, and prior to this week’s game, they have the Colts’ defense ranked11th. Maybe now they'll be a slot or two higher after Sunday’s game?

Keep in mind that, in a way like Pro Football Focus, stats like these are based in part upon assumptions and judgments made by the evaluators – i.e. how much weight to give to a particular situation, home/road influence. So I think it’s fair to take all of this with a grain of salt, though to my untrained eye Football Outsider’s approach seems to be more scientific than Pro Football Focus’s (which as I understand it, simply involves a bunch of guys sitting around a TV rating each player’s play-by-play performance on a -3 to +3 scale, followed by an unexplained adjustment to “normalize” the ratings).

FO is WAY better about disclosing their methodologies and using standardized measurements to produce their metrics than PFF. Whereas PFF is hot garbage, FO is quality, at least to me.