Weekly Update 10/1

Welcome back to the Football Sheets Weekly Update!

Late update this week because I have been dealing with some personal stuff on and off, but that hasn’t stopped us from updating and working on new features for Football Sheets.

Let’s get into it.

If you were granted a free trial to Football Sheets last month and did not renew last week, your Knack account has now been deactivated. A paid subscription to this Substack at $5/month will be required to regain access to the Knack database.

As a reminder - you can currently view injury history, snap counts (raw and percentages) broken down by phase of the game, and contract information on a player’s Details page.

The Details page also has a player’s transaction history dating back to February of this year.

Our next step with the NFL database is to add upcoming free agent type for players currently under contract, which should be coming in October.

Players are also eligible to return to practice from the Physically Unable to Perform, Non-Fooball Illness/Injury, and Injured Reserve lists if they were placed on them to begin the season. A player who has returned to practice for their respective team is noted with an asterisk next to their roster list status on the NFL Teams - Salaries page.

Since our last update, Sam Pittman (Arkansas) has become the fourth NCAA head coach to be fired. UCLA offensive coordinator Tino Sunseri has also mutually parted ways with the Bruins. With those openings in mind and more to come, the NCAA Coaching Carousel page will launch in the next few weeks so help you track all of the coaching movement in college football.

The NFL version of the Coaching Carousel will launch similarly soon. Both the NFL and NCAA versions will have full coaching staff rosters so you can see who’s currently on staff and who might be heading to a new destination next year.

The NCAA player database is coming along, with 32 remaining rosters to fill in to get our first version of the database up. Each roster takes about 30 minutes for me to process, so we’re looking at roughly 16 hours of work remaining, which should be finished in the next week or two.

That database will then link to the East-West Shrine Bowl and Panini Senior Bowl preseason watchlists so that you can see some data about those players as we prepare to enter all-star invite season.

Once invitations start to go out - typically late October or November - we will start to track all-star invites and acceptances in preparation for the NFL Draft circuit. Those pages will be supplemented by official measurements from the College Gridion Showcase, Hula Bowl, Shrine Bowl, and Senior Bowl as those events take place.

We’re getting close to the most exciting time of the year to be a Football Sheets subscriber, and I hope you join us for the experience. Thank you for supporting Football Sheets and see you next week!