Originally posted by Absolut Zero
Hmm, a Heat Map would be pretty hard to do, but not impossible. You couldn't do actual physical locations of the players and how they travel, but with a large enough sample size it's good enough.
Heat Map for 3WR formations would show what parts of the field that teams offense likes to attack. So WR1 catches the ball on a TE Drive route and gained 15 yards (can't tell YAC from pbp) so that area down by the left sideline gets a circle.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/paulch01/shooting/2015/
The actual colored Heat Map might be too hard to do, but placing X's and O's on the field should be a bit easier. So against Logzilla, the areas where WR3 travels would be filled. Against, say, PORN, the middle of the field would be jammed with X's and O's. Last year's Veteran #whatever team would have 2WR formation with the right sideline filled with X's and O's while the rest of the field would be much sparser.
It'll help tell DC's that against certain opponents you want to focus on protecting different areas of the field. Or at the least, it'll encourage them to shift their depth chart so stronger cover guys should be lined up in different spots for different defensive formations.Linking Basketball Reference? You're my kind of guy.