METHODOLOGY · VERSION 1.0
How MFT Player Rankings work
MFT Player Rankings are an original statistical comparison of current NFL players. They are designed to help readers find context, not to imitate a film grade or declare that a small score difference settles a football argument.
Position-first scoring
Players are first compared with others who do similar jobs. Quarterbacks combine passing efficiency, passing production, rushing value, turnovers, and availability. Skill positions combine efficiency, yards, first downs, touchdowns, usage, and availability. Defensive groups combine tackles, pressure plays, takeaways, passes defended, touchdowns, and availability. Kicker, punter, and return-specialist models use their relevant special-teams results.
Each metric becomes a percentile within the position group. Those percentiles are combined into a 0–100 MFT Score using documented, version-controlled weights. Overall rankings compare those position-relative scores.
Known limits
Public box scores do not describe every assignment. Offensive line and long-snapper boards therefore use availability as a temporary baseline and are marked Limited. New or returning players without prior-season data are marked New/returning. Close scores should be read as tiers.
Weekly update policy
During the regular season, a new snapshot is prepared after weekly statistics are complete. The update must pass identity, completeness, licensing, reasonableness, and database checks before publication. Published snapshots are immutable; corrections create a documented replacement.
Sources and intellectual-property policy
The launch model uses statistics already imported from the nflverse-data project, which labels its release repository CC BY 4.0 while noting that underlying NFL data remains subject to its owners’ terms. MyFootballToolbox attributes the project and publishes only MFT’s independently calculated scores.
PFF grades and rankings are not copied, scraped, transcribed, stored, or used to calculate the public MFT database. Any future commercial or proprietary source requires a written license that expressly allows storage, transformation, and public display. A source may be used for ordinary editorial context only when its terms permit that use; it cannot silently become a model input.