The Ages of Every Player in the NFC East to the Exact Day

Props for the effort man. I know how hard it is to compile all this stuff. And because I’m a snarky Cowboys fan, I’d like to point out that – for what it’s worth – the Eagles have the oldest crew of specialists (K,P,LS) in the NFC East.

Also, while I’m happy too admit that the Cowboys O-line is getting up there in age, it does look like the O-line is the oldest unit across all four teams. It would seem to me like many other positions (WR, RB etc.) are ‘plug-and-play’ positions for rookies, however the likelihood of an O-lineman starting as a rookie are rather low. It may be one of the few positions where experience can outweigh talent.

Now I’ve got to hunker down and dig through those stats …

some serious dedication and hard work unertaken here.

When you look at say OL starters, skill starters etc which involves a small number of players one vet can distort the average.

I assume you have projected starters based on last season/preseason or your view?

For the Giants do you have Seubert starting as he may be replaced by Andrews. O’Hara may not start the season and Koets would take his place. What is the starting OL for the Eagles?

Is there anyway to show the depth chart you have based the numbers on?

That is a serious age analysis right there, very good job.

Yeah, is there any chance you could break down who you put down for each position (ie for Eagles skill position starters: McCoy, Jackson, Maclin, etc..)
Regardless of that, job well done. I love seeing those Eagles as the youngest in pretty much all of the categories, makes me think the birds have a very bright future.

One other interesting tidbit is to look at the standard deviation. Standard deviation shows how much variation there is from the "average". The lower the figure for STDDEV, the closer the player ages are to the average age. The higher, the larger the spread from the average.

STDEV for the entire teams (minus K,P,LS): Eagles: 2.5 years, Giants 3.0 years, Cowboys 3.6 years, Redskins 4.1.

What these numbers show is that the Eagles have about 2/3rd of their players (starters and backups, I’m not separating the two) in a tightly defined age bracket 2.5 years to either side of the average age, which would therefore be between 23.5 years and 28.5 years.

At the other extreme, the Redskins have a much higher dispersal of player ages, and about 2/3rd of their players are between 24.2 and 32.3 years old. The wider dispersal is due to the outliers of 30+ year old players, and with 14, the Redskins have more players over 30 than any other team in the NFC.

Someone give Jason Pierre-Paul a noogie for being the baby of the bunch!

Nicely done. Although I’m still chuckling about “Days on Earth”. As opposed to Moon Days?

My brain just exploded on my keyboard.

There’s a pretty good chance that Dallas and Washington will have a few injuries to key starters this year. Mind you, there’s a good chance of that for every team, but given their ages, they are particularly likely.

Why does this matter? FO showed that last year, Dallas benefitted from exceptionally good luck when it comes to injuries (one could argue that paved the way for their remarkable second half surge last year). What will happen if these same aging starters start to go down with season ending injuries, or with smaller nagging injuries which limit their abilities? The same thing which generally happens to teams, they will falter and fade.

If Dallas stays healthy, they’ll likely make the playoffs pretty easily. But that’s a pretty big if.

this means nothing if anything we have less experience than any other team in the nfc east big deal . when was it good to be young and dumb no young team has ever won a super bowl so . we got a jump on other teams rebuilding im not excited

I give you major kudos on all the work you do on these posts, JimmyK. They always make for a great read in the morning.

Second of all, I feel like I remember one of your posts about age and the offensive line saying that there seems to be a huge drop-off for offensive lineman right about the 30 years old mark. Seeing that the average age of the Cowboys O-Line starts is basically 32 years old makes me think (hope?) that they’ll experience the same kind of injury problems we had last year. Also, I don’t think they have very good depth on the O-Line (I may be completely wrong, but that’s my general impression), so I think it could cause them problems not only dealing with injuries, but in the next few years when their linemen get too old to play.

If the Eagles can stay healthy on the O Line, I think they have a great shot at winning the division.

We clearly need to get younger in the secondary.

How much depends on the health of two of our thirty year olds. If Jackson isn’t right I feel sorry for Kolb. As much as I like Coleman if Mikell goes down we could be in serious touble.

Do some research for once! ;)

…..Great Post!

WaPost picked up your article…I’m a little disappointed you only did the NFC East. Slacker.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/09/redskins_oldest_nfc_east_team.html

There are a few philisophical questions here. Shouldn’t ‘days on earth’ start from conception? And what about after death? Then you’re technically still on earth, right? But judging by the amount of effort Jimmy puts in, its probably been taken into account through a newly discovered formula. Thanks man, great stuff.

“Average Ages of the Past 10 Super Bowl Winners (and Losers if you’re feeling generous)”

I’d be very curious to know how age correlates with success.

Having said that… excellent post, Jimmy. The future looks bright for this team. But the bottom line is Kevin Kolb holds the keys to the ship. If he’s anything worse than above average, then we’re in trouble.