Method · pressure@v1

Pressure

A sack or a quarterback hit. Hurries that force an early throw are not in the public data, so this undercounts pressure for every team equally. It is the honest measure available, not the complete one.

The filter, exactly as it runs

(sack = 1 OR qb_hit = 1)

Where this is arguable

Hurries are the largest share of real pressure and are missing entirely. A team whose rush forces early throws without landing hits looks worse here than it is.
Sacks partly reflect coverage holding up downfield, so this is not a clean measure of the rush alone.

These are the objections I already know about. If you have a better one, or you think a different threshold tells a truer story, say so and I will re-run it with your numbers and publish what comes back.

Version 1. Older versions are never deleted, so a piece that citespressure@v1 stays reproducible after this definition is revised. Source: Data: nflverse (nflfastR), CC-BY 4.0