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TRENCH

ADDRESSING THE UNDER APPRECIATED KEY TO THE GAME 

For too long, the heart of football — The Trenches — has been a blind spot. While quarterbacks have QBR and baseball players have WAR, the game-defining play of the Offensive and Defensive Lines was buried.

Now, that changes.

 

Introducing TrenchPowerRating (TPR): an essential performance indicator for the O-Line and D-Line. TPR finally opens up the most crucial, yet hardest-to-quantify, part of the game.

Why TPR Matters Now

Since 2009, our mission has been simple: to bring the overlooked into focus and make it usable and engaging.

Every Monday, the sports world agrees that one team "controlled the line" and "imposed their will." This is the discussion happening at every sports desk, podcast, and watercooler—but the data to back it up is missing.

  • The Problem: The current football conversation is overwhelmingly focused on skill and individual players.

  • Our Solution: We shift the spotlight to the Big Fellas up front, as a unit.
     

Our journey began by scoring these positions for fantasy football, recognizing that they play and succeed as a team. We've taken that core insight and pivoted it into a powerful, sustainable analytical framework.

TPR is not just another stat; it's a decision-support tool. It helps everyone—from analysts and fantasy players to everyday fans—to go deeper into the game they love and quantify the performance of the units that truly dictate victory.

Our thoughts this week published on Substack ... 

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"I use this analysis to make a lot of my decisions and it's been great!"

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ABOUT TRENCH

We've been focused on The Trenches since we first launched  in 2009. We’ve evolved our approach to relaunch to analyze, score and rate the play In The Trenches so anyone can “think like a coach” and be more informed about the game.

Eric Koivisto: Founder, Writer, Super Fan

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