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Stats Explained
We make every effort to provide your league with not only timely, but very accurate stats.
We provide many stat categories for many different NFL positions, which means we deal with many different stats each week.
Our goal is to always have 100% accuracy in the stats.
We have written this page
to explain to you the different stages of processing the stats that are reported to you, so you can better understand
the process when viewing the reports throughout the week. Below are the various stages that the stats go through with
an explanation for each:
Real-time Scoring Results
The real-time stats are provided to us from AP Digital, a division of The Associated Press.
The real-time stats are the most timely stats, but also the least accurate. From the time the play happens on the field
until the time the stats from the play are posted on our site can be as quick as one minute. With that timeliness comes the risk of sometimes providing data that is not 100% accurate.
So, during the course of a game, you may see the yardage of a player to be one or two yards different than what his "official" stats are at that point.
Also, certain events, like a TD which is later nullified by a penalty or reversed after a reply review, might show
up as a TD at first, but then be corrected a few minutes later. Also, any kind of strange plays that occur might take
a quarter or more to be displayed correctly.
As far as yardage totals not being correct, once the game ends, AP Digital will compare the stats of each game
with the official stats and make any necessary corrections. When this process is done, we receive the "final"
stats of the game, which are the official stats. The final stats contain any needed corrections to the yardage totals
as well as corrections to any other stats (i.e. field goal length, # of rushing attempts, etc).
We usually receive the final stats 30-60 minutes after each game ends and when we do, the real-time stats for that game are immediately updated.
To that end, please do not be concerned if you see what you believe are incorrect results being displayed on your
league's "Real-time scoring" page, especially if the play in question has just happened - rest assured that this
is just due to the dynamic nature of the data that we receive, and shortly that information will be corrected.
However, it is important to understand that the NFL will sometimes make changes to the stats hours, or even days,
after the game ends. Any changes not made within the first hour after a game ends will not be reflected in the real-time scoring.
For example, if a morning game ends at 4pm EST, and the NFL changes a stat for that game at 8pm the same
day, it will not be reflected in the real-time stats, but will be reflected in the Preliminary Weekly Results (see below).
Also, the real-time scoring does not support the following scoring categories: Wins, Losses, and Punt/Kickoff/Interception
Return Yardage.
Therefore, it is important to not use the real-time scoring as the final and official scores for your
league. Instead, use any of the other reports on the site as the final source for your scores. Those other reports
will be updated about three hours after the last game ends for the day. See the sections below for more info.
Preliminary Weekly Results
The Preliminary Weekly Results are provided to us from SportsTicker, a division of ESPN.
About three hours after the last game ends for the day on a Thursday, Saturday or Sunday, the preliminary weekly results will be available
on all the reports. For example, you can go to the Weekly Results report, click on the current week number,
and see the results for all the NFL games played so far. The fantasy standings will even be updated
with the wins and losses based on the results so far.
Preliminary weekly results are typically about 99.99% accurate.
The most common mistakes that happen with Preliminary Weekly Results are very unique plays, or official NFL statistics changes.
Since the Preliminary Weekly Results are posted three hours after the last game ends for the day, they will
be more accurate than the real-time stats because they will contain stat changes by the NFL that did not make
it into the real-time stats (which won't update a game more than an hour after that game ends).
Please be aware that other sources of stats frequently post inaccurate stats.
NFL.com is notorious for having incorrect stats on the "Game Stats" pages.
Of the NFL.com pages, the "Gamebook" is the most reliable source for stats, but even that has errors crop up from time to time.
If you are fairly certain our stats are wrong, please email support@webleaguemanager.com and include the
player name, the correct stats, and your source for the stats.
Note that the accuracy of our "Preliminary Weekly Results" is one way we like to differentiate ourselves from some of
our competitors - they might offer "live scoring" results, but those not-so-accurate results are the only results
displayed on their league pages until "final" results are issued, in some cases as late as Tuesday mornings! What
good is scoring if you don't truly know how many points you have until sometime Tuesday morning?
Final Weekly Results
The Final Weekly Results are provided to us from SportsTicker, a division of ESPN.
About three hours after the last game is over each week (which is typically the Monday night game), we issue
what are our most accurate statistics of the week, our Final Weekly Results. These results consist of all
Preliminary Weekly Results, plus any changes the NFL has made to the stats of any prior games, plus the
results from the last game(s) of the week. With very rare exceptions, these stats are 100% accurate.
When we issue our Final Weekly Results each week, statistics are as clean as we can possibly make them.
If you are having problems with the site generating correct scores for you, the vast majority of time it is
not due to a problem with the raw statistics we are reporting. Instead, it is a problem with the way your
league scoring system is configured. You should never use the Scoring Override to account for what you feel are
incorrect raw statistics, as this will only mask the true nature of the problem, which is invariably
something other than incorrect raw statistics.
Official NFL Statistics changes
The NFL's official statistical service, the Elias Sports Bureau, routinely makes stat changes in the
days or even weeks following games. Also, Elias does not usually publish the stat changes. Therefore,
we do not make any modifications to the stats for Fantasy Commissioner Web after Monday night. We suggest
your league considers that stats as of Monday night the official stats. Otherwise, you would be frequently going
back and changing the fantasy points for players, and possible frequently changing the outcome of games.
However, if you still wish to use the modified stats, you can go to the Scoring Override screen on the League
Office menu and modify the fantasy points for the affected fantasy team.
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