04-12-2020, 08:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-12-2020, 08:30 AM by speculadora.)
Do you realize how bad it is to evaluate anything on a per completion basis? Incompletions are, hot take here, bad. You can't just throw them out when evaluating QB play. In fact the way you're evaluating this, it would be even better in your eyes if Havran had completed 100 passes instead. Armstrong just had the single most efficient QB season - not just by passer rating but by literally any conceivable metric that doesn't use completions as a denominator - in league history. In terms of totals, he finished with more yards and 4 fewer touchdowns. OCO had the best record in the league.
Anyway you are pretty correct in terms of how we have to evaluate QB play in the "modern" NSFL. It's probably impossible to achieve early league volume because of sim balancing. Not just that, but also the current depth of the QB position. Most guys aren't starting now until about their 2nd or 3rd season. And then there's the overall quality of the league, which is much higher than it ever has been. There are no teams against whom you can just try to pad stats, really. The league is too heavily contested to afford giving up anything. QBs are probably, on the whole, throwing fewer passes than ever. I think Gambino getting into the HoF means we've significantly lowered the bar in terms of the kind of volume we expect from hall of fame QBs, which is probably a good thing. But they need to be good, still, and efficiency is our best judge of that. Despite the tone of all of this I'm honestly not sure anyone even thinks this is a debate.
Anyway you are pretty correct in terms of how we have to evaluate QB play in the "modern" NSFL. It's probably impossible to achieve early league volume because of sim balancing. Not just that, but also the current depth of the QB position. Most guys aren't starting now until about their 2nd or 3rd season. And then there's the overall quality of the league, which is much higher than it ever has been. There are no teams against whom you can just try to pad stats, really. The league is too heavily contested to afford giving up anything. QBs are probably, on the whole, throwing fewer passes than ever. I think Gambino getting into the HoF means we've significantly lowered the bar in terms of the kind of volume we expect from hall of fame QBs, which is probably a good thing. But they need to be good, still, and efficiency is our best judge of that. Despite the tone of all of this I'm honestly not sure anyone even thinks this is a debate.
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