Who carried the decade. Every season is scored against its own league with VAL, so a player is measured against the peers he actually faced, never against a different era's scoring environment.
Player of the decade
Jimmy GrahamBest single season
Rob Gronkowski · 2011Evidence
11,590 player-seasons
TE · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2013 (28.3)
DE · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2017 (26.1)
QB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2011 (25.9)
WR · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2015 (28.6)
DE · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2015 (22.9)
QB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2011 (21.9)
DE · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2014 (23.9)
TE · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2011 (31)
QB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2011 (24.3)
RB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2011 (25.9)
DE · 8 seasons in the decade · best 2017 (28.9)
DE · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2015 (21.6)
WR · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2015 (26.7)
DE · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2011 (25.6)
WR · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2015 (19.9)
NT · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2010 (22)
DT · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2012 (22)
TE · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2010 (21.2)
QB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2016 (18.1)
DE · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2017 (21.8)
WR · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2013 (21.8)
TE · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2015 (20.4)
QB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2013 (18.7)
TE · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2014 (22.9)
QB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 2017 (21.1)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rob Gronkowski | 2011 | 31 |
| 2 | J.J. Watt | 2012 | 30.4 |
| 3 | Jared Allen | 2011 | 30.1 |
| 4 | Calvin Johnson | 2011 | 30 |
| 5 | Aaron Donald | 2018 | 30 |
| 6 | Peyton Manning | 2013 | 29.6 |
| 7 | Chandler Jones | 2017 | 28.9 |
| 8 | Arian Foster | 2010 | 28.8 |
| 9 | Antonio Brown | 2015 | 28.6 |
| 10 | Jimmy Graham | 2013 | 28.3 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.