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Stats on Stats on Stats

Leveraging the Advanced Stat Explorer to get a better sense of player performance is a lot of fun, and it can be quite profitable.

In Chase or Charlie? The Dynasty Dealbook Recommends Doubling Down on Brown in Week 8, we flagged that Chase Brown’s above-average ability to evade tackles and avoid stuffs in 2024 had translated to 2025 despite the early-season results. On stuff avoidance:

Using data from the Advanced Stats Explorer, I developed a “Stuff% Over/Under” metric that descriptively (but not necessarily predictively) evaluates an RB’s ability to avoid stuffs after accounting for how often they are hit at or behind the line of scrimmage. Brown’s Stuff% O/U of -3.2 in 2024 and -1.9 in 2025 both reflect above-average performance in avoiding stuffs.

Brown was a top-five fantasy RB the rest of the way.

Stuff% Over/Under

Of course, Brown had other things going for him too, but let’s focus on Stuff% Over/Under.