Lately, I’ve been pondering how to apply aDOT to Fantasy Football. If you’re not familiar with aDOT (Average Depth of Target), it’s a great stat that measures how far downfield from the line of scrimmage a player is when he receives a pass target (on average).
While aDOT applies to any type of receiver, I’m most interested in analyzing it for Wide Receivers as they are typically the deep threats. For Fantasy purposes, it’s applicable as the higher the aDOT, the better your yardage totals. However, on its own, it doesn’t mean much. After all, who cares about aDOT if the WR is minimally targeted? Do you know who the aDOT leader was in 2020? Tajae Sharpe – on 3 targets (and no receptions).
If we combine aDOT with targets though, we may have something. So to smell check it, I pulled some data…