Props to our own David Orochena for brainstorming this idea. In Joe Clark’s article on the terrible, no good, very bad Josh Scobee trade, Orochena pointed out Pro Football Reference gave Scobee an Approximate Value – their cumultiative stat that tells how productive a player was in a given year – a negative one for his time in Pittsburgh.
To some of you, that means nothing but to me, it means a lot. I didn’t know PFR could even hand out negative scores with their AV. I thought the floor was zero. Turns out, you can keep digging past the bottom and into negative territory.