Hey folks. I mentioned a few days ago that the NFL is now making snap data available to the media a few hours after each game. Like the all-22 film, this is one of the Holy Grails of NFL stat analysis that is finally public in 2012. We're still playing around with some fun new ways to display this data on a weekly basis, but I'm so excited about having it that I wanted to share with the class.

Every Tuesday afternoon, we'll be able to put up a table that looks something like this. Thanks to Abe vander Bent for helping write a parser that grabs the data for us from the NFL's media website. This table is in order by snap total, but I may decide to display things separated into offense and defense (with a third group for guys who play special teams only). We're also playing around with ideas for sortable tables, an oft-requested feature for FO. (Right now only the tables in FO Premium are sortable.)