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Our season-ending Quality Stats spectacular!
Cold, Hard Football Facts for January 2, 2008
 We love our Quality Stats. In fact, sometimes we dream about them at night: frolicking with the Bendability Index in the sand, dancing cheek to cheek with Defensive Passer Rating, staring deep into the eyes of the Offensive Hog Index.
And it turns out you love our Quality Stats, too. We found out in our year-end poll that the Quality Stats were the most popular feature here at Cold, Hard Football Facts, so we put a little extra love into our final edition of the season. More analysis, more trends, more happy green charts.
So, now, for your clicking pleasure, the 2007 Final Quality Stats, in one easy to use file.
We won't be updating these during the playoffs, but we will be using them extensively for reference. In addition, we will be tracking season-long stats vs. Quality Teams that change as the playoffs go along, a stat package we haven't come up with a name for yet. Maybe the Quality Quality Stats, or the "QQSes."
Or none of the above.
Here are the final regular-season Quality Stats (all of which can be found at all times in the navigation bar on the main page). Click on the friendly colored links for the complete reports on each, and as always, thank you for shopping CHFF for all of your football needs.
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- League leader: New England (7.79 YPA)
- Bottom of the barrel: San Francisco (4.08 YPA)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: The NFL's "Fantastic Four" of New England, Dallas, Green Bay and Indianapolis finished 1-2-3-4 in this category.
- League leader: San Diego (70.0 rating against)
- Bottom of the barrel: New Orleans (96.9 rating against)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: The top 11 teams in Defensive Passer Rating ALL made the playoffs.
- League leader: New England and Jacksonville (tie, average rank 5.67)
- Bottom of the barrel: Kansas City (average rank 28.67)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: Seattle is the only offensive line ranked in the bottom 10 league-wide to make the playoffs.
- League Leader: New York Giants (average rank 5.33)
- Bottom of the barrel: Buffalo (average rank 28.33)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: The NFC East had best Offensive Hogs and the best Defensive Hogs of any division, despite pitting their lines against each other for all those divisional games.
- League Leader: San Diego (+29)
- Bottom of the barrel: Kansas City (-26)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: Teams winning the Big Play battle from game to game had 180 wins against just 34 defeats (84.1 winning percentage).
- League Leader: New England (+20.8)
- Bottom of the barrel: St. Louis (-11.8)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: Philadelphia, at No. 8, is the highest ranked non-playoff team on this Index that measures performance relative to average performance of competition.
- League Leader: San Diego (18.04 yards per point allowed)
- Bottom of the barrel: St. Louis (12.46 yards per point allowed)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: Dallas, at No. 17, has the lowest rank for a No. 1 seed in the short history of the Bendability Index.
- League Leader: New England (11.17 yards per point scored)
- Bottom of the barrel: Kansas City (19.5 yards per point scored)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: No. 6 seeds Washington and Tennessee rank lowest of the 12 playoff teams in Scoreability.
- League Leader: San Francisco (average rank 5.4)
- Bottom of the barrel: Cincinnati and Indianapolis (average rank 23.4)
- Cold, Hard Football Fact: Five of the top seven teams on the index didn't make the playoffs.
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