We are at the midway point of the season and now is a good time to really take a step back and look at if Joey Porter can indeed become the 2nd Dolphin to win the Defensive Player of the Year award in 3 years.

To do this, we're going to have to crunch the numbers.  Now I know that players impact football games in more ways than numbers can show.  For example, all of Joey Porter's countless QB hurries - some of which resulted in interceptions - won't be accounted for here.  But the fact of the matter is that the people who vote on the award are journalists who, more or less, are simply looking at numbers.  They haven't watched every snap for every potential award winner.  They just look at the top candidates statistics and then cast their vote.

So that's how we're going to look at it.

Now, if you were a reader of this site back in 2006, you'd know that I used a formula which I created called the Impact Plays Index (IPI) to break down Jason Taylor's chance at winning the award.  You can see how I created the formula by reading this post.  And you can see, based on the final results of my breakdown, that this formula was pretty damn accurate in terms of how the final voting results broke down.

So let's get onto the breakdown itself.

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