Glossary Resources

Finding the Glossary:

Each site has a slightly different level of data, so each glossary has slightly different information. In order to visit your site’s glossary is found at sitename.trumedianetworks.com/football/glossary.

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The glossary has a list of all stats and filters available on the site, with the following search options...

Stats

• Search: search the Abbrev and Name of all stats

• Scopes: limit the list to only stats for Offense, Defense, Passing, Rushing, etc.

• Granularities: Aggregate stats are available for reports on all pages except play-by-play; Event stats are only available for play-by-play reports, on play-by-play pages and pop-up modals

The list will also soon include the stat equation and a designation for native/custom stats.

Filters

• Search: search the Name and Info columns of all stats

• Types: choose the kind of filter (MultiSelect, Range, etc.)

• Groups: choose which group the filter is in, in the left-side filter menu (Play, Game, Season, etc.)

• Timespans: choose season-level, game-level, or event-level filters

• Scopes: the tabs and stats to which the filters apply (Offense, Defense, etc.)  

• Entitites: the pages to which the filters apply (Team, Player, etc.)

Searching Tips & Tricks:

We have a number of patterns that we have while naming statistics, and here is a helpful guide to finding statistics. When searching for stats in the following categories, it might be helpful to use the corresponding abbreviations or phrases:

General

• Games: “Game”, “G”

• Points: “Pts”, “P”

• Scoring: “Score”, “Scr”, “Scrd”, “Sc”, “S”

• Yardage: ”Yards”, “Yds”, “Yd”, “Y”

  • Distance: “Distance”, “Dist”, “Dst”, “Dt”, “D”

  • To (example: “Distance to Goal”): “to”, “2”, “T”

• Drives: “Drives”, “Drv”, “Dr”, “D”

• Plays: “Play”, “Ply”, “Pl”, “P”, “#”

• Snaps: "“Snap”, “Snaps”, “Snp”

• Scrimmage: “Scr”, “LOS”

• Time: “Time”, “Tm”, “T”

• Penalties: “Penalty”, “Penalties”, “Pen”, “Pn”

Downs & Conversions

• Downs: “Down”, “Dwn”, “Dn”, “D”

  • 1st Down: “First”, “1st”, “1”, “F”

  • 2nd Down: “Second”, “2nd”, “2”

  • 3rd Down: “Third”, “3rd”, “3”

  • 4th Down: “Fourth”, “4th”, “4”

  • 1st/2nd (Early Downs): “1st/2nd”, “1st2nd”, “1D/2nd”, “1stD/2nd”

  • 3rd/4th (Conversion Downs): “3rd/4th”, “3or4th”

• Conversions: “Conversion”, “Conv”, “Cv”

Offense

• Offensive: “Offensive”, “Offense”, “Off”, “Of”, “O”

• Formations:

  • Shotgun: “Shotgun”, “Shtgn”, “Shg”, “Gun”

  • Backfield: “Backfield”, “Bckfld”, “Bkfld”, “Bkfd”

• Passing:

  • Passing: “Pass”, “Passing”, “Passes”, “Ps”, “P”

  • Passer: “Passer”, “Psr”, “QB”

  • Throwing: “Throw”, “Thrw”, “T”

  • Dropbacks: “Dropback”, “Drpbk”, “Dbk”, “Db”

  • Attempts: “Att”, “At”, “A”

  • Completions: “Comp”, “Cmp”, “Cm”, “Cp”, “C”

  • Passer Rating: “PsrRt”, “PsRt”, “PsRtg”

  • Sacks: “Sack”, “Sck”, “Sk”

  • Screens: “Screen”, “Scrn”, “Scr”

• Rushing:

  • Rushing/Running: “Rush”, “Rushing”, “Rushes”, “Run”, “Rsh”, “Rn”, “Rs”, “R”

  • Rusher: “Rusher”

• Receiving:

  • Reception: “Rec”, “Rc”, “Receiver”, “Rcvr”, “Catch”

  • Targets: “Target”, “Tar”, “Tgt”, “Trg”, “T”

  • Routes: “Route”, “Routes”, “Rte”, “Rt”

  • Drops: “Drop”, “Drops”, “Drp”

• Blocking: “Blocking”, “Block”, “Blocked”, “Blocker”, “Blk”, “Blkd”, “Blker”, “Bk”, “Bl”, “B”

Defense

• Defensive: “Defensive”, “Defense”, "Def", "Df", “D”

• Opponent-Related:

  • Opponent: “Opponent”, “Opp”, “|OPP”, “Op”, “O”

  • Allowed: “Allowed”, “Allwed”, “Allow”, “Allwd”, “All”, “A”

  • Against: “Against”, “Agt”

• Tackling:

  • Tackles: “Tackle”, “Tkl”, “Tckl”, “T”

  • Missed: “Miss”, “Ms”

• Pressures: “Pressure”, “Prsr”

• Fumbling:

  • Fumbles: “Fumble”,”Fumbles”, “Fmb”, “Fum”, “Fb”

    • Lost: “FL”, “FmbL”, “FumL”

    • Forced: “FF”

    • Recovered: “FR”

• Pass Rushing:

  • Pass Rushing: “PassRusher”, “PassRush”, “PsRush”, “PsRsh”, “Rush”, “Rsh”

Percentages/Rates

• Per:

  • “Per” (example: EPA Per Rush = “EPAPerRush”)

  • "P" (example: Points Per Game = “PPG”)

  • “/” (example: Yards Per Play = “Yd/Ply”)

  • “%” (example: Receptions Per Target = “Rec%”)

• Rate: “Rate”, “%”, “/”, “R”

• Percentage, Percent of: “Percentage”, “%”, “/”

Differentials/Margins

• Differentials: “Differential”, “Difference”, “Diff”, “Df”

• Margins: “Margin”, “Mgn”, “M”

Special Teams

• Special Teams: “ST”

• Kicking: “Kick”, “Kck”, “K”

  • Kickoffs: “Kickoff”, “KO”

  • Kicker: “Kicker”

• Punting:

  • Punts: “Punt”, “Pnt”, “Pt”, “P”

  • Punter: “Punter”

• Returns: "Return", "Ret", "Rtrn", "R"

Other/Miscellaneous

• Long: “Long”, “Lng”, “Lg”

• Designed: “Designed”, “Des”

Data Sources (varies by site)

• PFF: “PFF”, “|PFF”, “Pff”

• NGS: “NGS”, “ngs”

• SkillCorner: “SkillCorner”, “|SC”,

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