A couple points …
The chart I posted are rankings … it ranks each QB in each category on a per game basis. Ie; QB with most TD’s per game is ranked #1 (Ray) and QB with the fewest INT’s per game is ranked #1 (Durant) and so on …
A question was posed to extrapolate the numbers … that is all I did. I responded to a question posed and since I had the numbers from an earlier article I wrote, I posted them. I never made any conclusions or used them to support or refute any individual’s argument or position. I just provided what someone was looking for … that’s it.
As far as numbers/statistics in general … again I am not proclaiming that they are the be all and end all in any way, shape or form. I understand how “hot” of a topic stats & analytics are in sports. Just listen to an hour or two of sports talk radio and you’ll undoubtedly hear a debate about them.
FenderGuy: OK…thanks for the clarification. I did appreciate the chance to match up some of the numbers.
Analytics…yes.It’s big business for companies that compile that stuff. Real fodder for sports yak stations for sure. If you read “Baseball for Brain Surgeons” by the very clever Tim McCarver, he discusses the creation and importance of stats to the game…but baseball thrives more on probabilities than any other sport I can think of.
I don’t discount all stats but sometimes it’s easy to forget that the QB is not a world unto himself. As last year’s O-line quite often showed.
But it’s also been said that playing quarterback is the most difficult position on the team.
GHT120
June 4, 2015, 12:02am
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TOTALLY out of curiosity, two questions:
(1) were the stats of ALL the QBs extrapolated for any games they missed?
(2) not certain I see how all but the last two stats are extrapolated as they are all per something.