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Find story angles
Turn a football question into a specific set of situations worth reporting.
DriveLens by OffSchedule Football
Find the football story behind stalled drives.
DriveLens helps football writers and analysts compare penalties, sacks, turnovers, and critical situations—and inspect the plays behind each finding.
Small details. Big consequences.
DriveLens research view
Illustrative workflow · not live statistics
Research question
Which defensive penalties extend possessions?
Situation3rd / 4th down
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FilterAccepted defensive foul
Evidence trail
Play description → record ID → what followed in the same possession
Illustrative walkthrough
Research from question to play evidence.
This example shows the shape of a DriveLens investigation. It is descriptive, contains no live statistics, and does not present a real-game finding.
Actual research is available by invitation.
Frame the investigation
Which defensive penalties extend possessions?
Start with a reporting question, then translate it into inspectable football conditions rather than a broad search for correlation.
DownThird or fourth
EventAccepted defensive foul
ResultAwards a first down
Unit of reviewDistinct affected plays
For the reporting process
Useful before the angle becomes a claim.
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Compare teams in context
Read a team's opportunities beside pooled league results under matching filters.
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Substantiate analysis
Move from a pattern to source descriptions and record IDs you can inspect.
Methodology
Evidence first. Limits stated plainly.
DriveLens uses nflverse/nflfastR play-by-play, keeps source descriptions and record IDs attached to evidence, and compares pooled league opportunities under matching filters.
Observed possession outcomes are not causal claims. DriveLens describes what happened and how often; it does not establish that a preceding play caused a later result.
Read the full methodologyAbout OffSchedule Football
Independent football research built to be inspected.
OffSchedule Football develops research tools for writers and analysts who want to understand situations in context. DriveLens focuses on the path from a precise question to the underlying play evidence—without turning descriptive results into claims they cannot support.
Invitation-only pilot
Bring a football question.
Tell us your name, your role, and one NFL research question you want to investigate.
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