nflverse-data VS nfldata

nah, i scraped pbp data going back to 1999 and compiled the data myself

It took way too long for me to find this when I did a similar exercise, but if you ever decide to include snap counts, I'd start here. https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases/tag/snap_counts

I just opened up play-by-play data, and while I just looked at regular season data (some of these guys weren't in POs, so it doesn't matter), and only had 6 guys with 50+ catches of 2 or less air yards - including McCaffery, who's not on here. So....I'm a but confused. But whatever, I lowered the requirement to 30 receptions (to include everyone who got mentioned here), and here's the resulting table, sorted by Success Rate on such receptions:

PBP participation has exactly what you are looking for.

It might not be the exact same EPA model, but nflfastR EPA data is free on github: https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases/tag/pbp

also check out the various other things available here: https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases

Check out this repo, I'm pretty sure you can find what you need for data: https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data

There's an excellent introduction to how to use R to scrape NFL data here, and a slightly more involved tutorial here. I strongly suggest giving this a go, both for the NFL related data crunching you can do, and for the ideal opportunity to learn a programming language: figuring out how to do something you already want to do.

nflverse's games file here: https://github.com/nflverse/nfldata/blob/master/data/games.csv

It's been superseded by nflfastR at least for the play by play stuff. You can also download the data directly, rather than using the scraping functions. https://github.com/nflverse/nfldata