Overview

Rushing Intelligence evaluates running backs through six analytical categories:

• Role
• Rushing Efficiency
• Receiving
• Big Play Ability
• Dominance
• Output

Together, these categories describe how a running back earns opportunities, creates value, contributes in the passing game and converts his role into production.

The categories explain the player's profile. The Overall Score summarizes that profile.

Why Separate Categories?

Two running backs can produce similar fantasy totals through very different paths.

One may succeed through:

• heavy workload;
• goal-line usage;
• backfield control.

Another may rely on:

• efficiency;
• receiving contribution;
• explosive plays.

A single production total cannot explain those differences.

Rushing Intelligence separates the profile into categories so users can understand what is driving the result.

Overall Categories and Team Context Categories

Rushing Intelligence contains two independent analytical models.

Overall Categories

The Overall categories compare the player with running backs across the league.

Team Context Categories

Team Context compares the player only with the other running backs on his own team.

Some category names appear in both models, including Role, Rushing Efficiency, Receiving, Big Play Ability, Dominance and Output.

The names describe the same broad football concepts, but the comparison is different.

A strong Overall Role score means the player has a strong workload relative to running backs across the league.

A strong Team Context Role score means he controls a large share of the opportunities within his own backfield.

The two profiles should be read together, but never treated as the same score.

Role

Role measures the player's offensive involvement within the running game.

It reflects how important the player is in creating and sustaining offensive opportunities.

A strong Role often provides a stable foundation for future production, although opportunity alone does not guarantee fantasy success.

Rushing Efficiency

Rushing Efficiency measures how effectively the player creates value from his rushing opportunities.

Highly efficient running backs consistently maximise the value of the opportunities they receive.

Efficiency complements Role rather than replacing it.

A player may receive many opportunities without using them efficiently, while another may produce excellent results on a smaller workload.

Receiving

Receiving measures the player's contribution to the passing game as part of his complete running back profile.

Modern running backs contribute in many different ways beyond traditional rushing attempts.

This category evaluates how important that receiving contribution is within the player's overall offensive profile.

Big Play Ability

Big Play Ability measures the player's capacity to generate explosive plays.

It highlights players capable of producing significant gains that can change field position or create scoring opportunities.

Because explosive plays can fluctuate substantially over short periods, Big Play Ability is presented as valuable descriptive information but is not included in the live Overall Score.

Big Play Ability can still be reviewed through its category score and trend information.

Dominance

Dominance measures how much of the offense flows through the running back.

A high Dominance score identifies players who represent a major part of their team's offensive production.

Dominance differs from Role.

Role measures involvement.

Dominance measures offensive influence.

Output

Output measures the player's realised offensive production.

It reflects the final results generated by the player's complete running back profile.

Because Output represents the end result of the player's performance, it should always be interpreted together with the underlying categories that explain how that production was achieved.

Overall Score

The Rushing Overall Score combines the contributing categories into one complete running back evaluation.

Big Play Ability remains excluded from the final Overall Score, although it is still calculated and displayed.

Players with similar Overall Scores may have very different profiles.

For example:

• one may rely on Role and Dominance;
• another may rely on Rushing Efficiency and Receiving;
• another may be driven mainly by Output.

The category profile should therefore always be reviewed alongside the Overall Score.

Same Names, Different Meaning in Team Context

Within Team Context, the categories measure the same broad football ideas but relative only to the player's teammates.

Team Context Role

Measures the player's offensive involvement relative to the other running backs on his own team.

Team Context Rushing Efficiency

Measures rushing effectiveness relative to the other backs in the same backfield.

Team Context Receiving

Measures receiving contribution within the backfield.

Team Context Big Play Ability

Describes explosiveness relative to teammates but remains excluded from the final Team Context score.

Team Context Dominance

Measures the player's offensive influence within his own backfield.

Team Context Output

Measures the player's share of the backfield's realised production.

A high Team Context category score does not automatically mean the player is elite across the league.

It means he leads or strongly influences that area within his own backfield.

Categories and Trend Strength

The category scores describe the current level of performance.

Trend Strength describes whether those categories are improving or declining.

A player may have:

• high Role with a declining trend;
• modest Receiving with a strong positive trend;
• elite Output with weakening Efficiency;
• stable Overall performance with mixed category movement.

The current category value and its direction should be considered separately.

How to Use the Categories

1. Review the Overall Score.
2. Identify the strongest and weakest categories.
3. Check whether the profile is driven by workload, efficiency, receiving or production.
4. Review Big Play Ability as descriptive context, not as a contributor to Overall.
5. Compare the Overall categories with Team Context.
6. Use Trend Strength to understand how each category is moving.
7. Add Baseline and Projection for wider context.

What the Categories Are Not

The categories are not:

• six separate player rankings;
• six equally important contributors to Overall;
• identical to the Team Context categories;
• guarantees of future performance;
• replacements for the complete running back profile.

Their purpose is to explain what is creating the player's current evaluation.