Analytics
Sixty seasons of Dolphins football measured the same way โ every game, opponent, opening quarterback, draft pick, and coaching regime. Metrics reach as far back as the data honestly allows, and stop where it does.
Seasons
Point differential and Pythagorean win expectation back to 1966, with opponent-adjusted SRS and EPA from 1999.
2016 went 10-6 on a roster worth 7.6 wins.
Head-to-Head
Every regular-season game against all 31 franchises, with relocations folded into one history.
Best divisional mark: New England Patriots at 53.4%.
Game Vault
Every regular-season result in one connected archive, with season and rivalry context.
Search by opponent, result, venue, score, season, or starting quarterback from 1999 onward.
Quarterbacks
Every season-opening starter since 1966, collapsed into runs.
Marino opened 16 straight seasons. The 27 since have needed 11 men.
Draft Capital
Career value against what each draft slot returns league-wide, with retention tracked separately.
Troy Vincent earned 84% of his career value after leaving.
Trade Trees
Follow picks as they move, multiply, become players, or fund the next transaction.
Unresolved pick lineage stays visibly open instead of being guessed.
Streaks & Splits
Unbroken runs both ways, the biggest margins, and the record split by venue, closeness, and decade.
Home 63.8% against 46.1% on the road.
Regimes
Each tenure on record, scoring margin, luck, and efficiency where the era supports it.
Adam Gase won 5.2 games above what his scoring deserved across 3 seasons.
What the numbers say
- Drafting
The Marino Era produced the best value per pick (+2.61 over expectation), and kept 65% of it.
- Quarterbacks
17 men have opened a season for the franchise. Two of them account for 26 of the 61 seasons.
- Era limits
Open play-by-play starts in 1999, so SRS and EPA cover 27 of 60 seasons. Everything earlier shows a dash, never a zero.