3: The easiest type of catches. These are balls that should absolutely never be dropped. Most good short passes result in 3s. It's rare (but possible) to see a 3 on a pass longer than 15-20 yards.
2: Reasonably tough catches. Most wide receivers will still make a good number of these, but they're not a given.
1: These are extremely difficult balls to catch, though still theoretically within the realm of possibility to be caught. When caught, these comprise diving grabs with full extension, 1-handed snags, the like. Much more often, though, these pass attempts fall incomplete.
0: Thoroughly uncatchable by any stretch of the imagination. Throws that end up 5-yards OOB, for example. These are included to track WR targets, mostly.
As an example, I've included a sample chart below of what will follow each game's PI, with an explanation. Receiverchart, GO:
| This Game | Totals | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Presley | - | - | 0/1 | 0/1 | - | - | 0/1 | 0/1 | |
| Embree | 4 | - | - | 1/2 | 4 | - | - | 1/2 | |
| Rosario | - | 0/3 | 3/4 | - | - | 0/4 | 3/3 | - | |
| Coleman | 1 | - | - | 1/1 | 1 | - | - | 1/1 | |
| Smith | - | - | 0/1 | - | - | - | 0/1 | - | |
| Marvray | 2 | 0/1 | 1/1 | - | 2 | - | 0/1 | 1/1 | |
| Franklin | - | 0/1 | 1/1 | - | - | 0/1 | 1/1 | - | |
| Barr | - | - | 1/2 | - | - | - | 1/2 | - | |
| Harkey | - | - | - | 1/1 | - | - | - | 1/1 | |
You can look at every player who has caught a pass so far this year and see how he's done both for the specific game, and for the entire season. Since this sample is from the first game of a season, the 'Game' and 'Total' numbers are identical. That won't be the case for every other game of the season.
The chart is pretty self-explanatory. For each player, you have his total number of passes caught per type of target. Let's pull the single game stats for one specific player to examine more closely: Ricky Marvray.
| This Game | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Marvray | 2 | 0/1 | 1/1 | - |
So what does it all mean? Well, in the '0' (totally uncatchable) column, Ricky has a "2." That means that two passes were targeted for him that had no chance of completion. In the '1' column, there's an "0/1" - in other words, he had one pass thrown to him that was possibly catchable, but would have been extremely difficult to haul in. The "1/1" in the '2' column means that Ricky did manage to catch the one pass thrown to him that was moderately difficult to catch. And the "-" in the '3' column means he didn't get a single truly easy pass his way.
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