01-02-2024, 11:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-04-2024, 11:47 AM by lemonoppy. Edited 2 times in total.)
This report is going to be a study of how QB rating/ how good your QB is relating to success/championships. Seeing where each champion QB rating is at and if it is low, we can see what made the team good to win even if the QB may have not been the main reason? Or is it that QB rating was not a well representation? Maybe the QB had a great playoff run? Anything I say here I do not mean to put down and players or teams I am evaluating how good the QB is purely off the rating nothing else. I am also going to keep track of total Top 3 placements and bottom 3 placements.
Sidenote: I refer the ultiimus bowl as the bowl game several times and that is what I mean when I say it. I also know this looks like a wall of text, but I tried to make it look a little neater lol
Here is the template I will be going by:
• QB- place in Qb rating that year
• Talk about their regular season stats and go how they did in the playoffs and some of the context that I can find.
Top 3: 15
Lowest place: Season 33: 9th
S44: Honolulu Hahalua
• QB: Nova Montagne-2nd
• Great regular season, but he also had an amazing playoff run. Final game with a 130 QB rating and an average over the three of at least a 100. A case where the QB play was good throughout the whole season and played even better in the playoffs which lead them to be able to complete the goal. This is one case where it is simple. Good QB Good team and did well when it mattered entirely. Good and good nothing much to investigate there.
S43: Baltimore Hawks
• QB: Preston Beatz-1st
• Amazing regular season, but in the playoffs it gets interesting. First amazing round game did great. 2nd and bowl game are where it gets interesting. The 2nd round he had more of an average game with no TD, but no INT. Wining in a close game where the kicker had most of the action. The bowl game though a rating of 48 and an interception with no TD. The defense also had a TD in this game which for sure made the difference in the game. Seems like a defense picking up a QB that had a bad game after having such a great season. Could be also facing great defenses in the playoffs as well. Great regular season okay playoffs, but still won because the rest of the team picked him up.
S42: Arizona Outlaws
• QB: Donovan Winters III-1st
• This is a clean-cut case. Good regular season decent to good playoff performance. They also dominated in each game so stats can be a bit misleading for that. Not having to go crazy because they did so well. So far it’s been a pretty clear trend, but we will see. Good defense and a great QB will lead to success.
S41: Cape Town Crash
• QB: Creg Jerrith IV-3rd
• Looking at it this seems like a good QB that was even better during the playoffs. Having three good games in a row. First two having over 100 QB rating and the last being in the 80s. In the regular season he also had a good ratio to TD and interceptions but did not have a staggering number of TDs. A Tom Brady type of season where he may not have insane regular season stats, but elevates during the playoffs.
S40: Arizona Outlaws
• QB: Wendell Sailor -1st
• Ranked first in QB Rating with a 3td to int ratio nothing wrong it seems in the regular season with the team also having a great record. In the playoffs he did continue his good play though, but in the bowl game he had an almost perfect game with a 124 rating when it mattered most. So far good play has continued into playoffs or improved.
S39: Yellowknife Wraiths
• QB: Adrian St. Christmas-5th
• Our first QB that was ranked outside the top 3 so far. It seems he wasn’t the more accurate at times, but nothing glaringly bad he was still top 5. When he got into the playoffs…..he did more than step up. He had ratings of 113,134,125 in three blowout games where he clearly had a big impact on that. This is part of the reason why I wanted to do this. This is by far the best run so far. This could be just a case of an underperforming regular season, but I think this was a case of having his best three games at the right time. Not saying he had to carry this team, but he was playing like he had to. 11tds and 1 int over three games. Not much more you can ask out of your QB then that. An amazing playoff run that should be remembered by everyone especially from that team.
S38: Arizona Outlaws
• QB: Wendell Sailor -1st
• First QB repeat so far! Having a great regular season and great playoffs nothing much to really complain or say here. A great QB that stayed great during the playoffs. I will note that he won three close games in a row. Which means that if he was worse they could have easily lost.
S37: Arizona Outlaws
• QB: Wendell Sailor -1st
• Well… the first repat is also the first three peat! He has also been 1st all three times. Which makes it safe to say that he has been a great reason for their winning. It is not something you can do accidentally. This time in the playoffs he did even better than he did in the regular season. His rating was above 100 every game and one with 124 in the bowl game. Again a “perfect” QB so far looking at it the past three playoff bowl wins.
S36: Honolulu Hahalua
• QB: Dexter Zaylren-5th
• Tied for the lowest so far. By no means did he have a bad regular season at all. Good TD/INT ratio and good numbers just not a ton of yards. He did have a good playoff run. High 90s, high 80s and than 110. I cannot say he had an incredible run to carry his team in the end, but he played more than well enough to win the games. Most likely good team that had a QB that did enough to win.
S35: Honolulu Hahalua
• QB: Dexter Zaylren-3rd
• Our second repeat, but our first back-to-back. Great regular season better than the one after and in the playoffs did not disappoint. High 90s and low 100s. Seemed to be more consistent through it all and dominant throughout. No problems at all as they got ahead early most games so cannot expect huge games from the QB.
S34: Chicago Butchers
• Kazimir Oles Jr-3rd
• The QB was a top QB during the regular season and had a great playoff run besides the second round where he had a blow average game. Not a perfect run by any means, but generally good and good enough to win it all. This was because in the second game there were a ton of field goals which was enough to get them out ahead.
S33: Baltimore Hawks
• Gimmy Jaroppolo Jr.-9th
• Now this is interesting. The lowest regular season ranking by far. 28TD and 16INT is not something to be super excited about, but what is really going to determine here is how he performed in the playoffs. Looking at the playoffs this is an insanely weird run. He had a rating of 76, but also got Offensive POG….. not what you would expect. He did have a touchdown run and no interceptions so maybe they are not valuating the rushing right. The second playoff game gets even weirder. The offensive player of the game was the opponent QB in a loss. Gimmy had a rating of 79.6 which is better, but still not great. He had 1TD and 2 INT which seems worse, but he did have 300 yards and the win which is all that matters. He also did ot get carried by the defense or the rushing game as the rushing game wasn’t great and the defense had no turnovers. So he may not have played amazing, but he did enough to win. NOW, in the bowl game this is an incredible story. Before I tell you his stat line, his team was done 24 in the first quarter. You may think…. how did he win after something like that. He only went on to have 5TDS 396 passing yards (ill call it 400) and only one INT. to lead his team to a 41-38 W. He pulled off the Patriots vs Falcons comeback but even more insane. This was a hard carry job in the bowl game if I have ever Tom Brady has had as good of a game as his highest rating is 124 and Gimmy had 131 and unlike the real-life jimmy he had one of the best bowl performances possible.
S32: New York Silverbacks
• Sam Howitzer-3rd
• A good regular season which got him to third nothing to say there. The INTs are a little high, but he has the numbers to make up for it. Interesting playoff case where he was above average the first too and below on the bowl game. The player of the game went to him all three times even in the game with an about 80 rating. Which you could say could have gone to a RB with 2 touchdowns but the RB only had 54 yards so that is hard to say. Doing enough to win is also just as important.
S31: Honolulu Hahalua
• Joliet Christ Jr.-8th
• The second lowest that we have gotten so far with a lot of interceptions brining him down with 15. Now this is a completely different case to the other lower rating QB. He did not win one POG in the playoffs so you may think that he got carried…. Well two of the winners were WR’s. He had high ratings in 2 of 3 and the last not being bad. 108,96,87. According to the awards he got carried by the WR’s, but I do think he was probably snubbed in the second game. You would have to go very in depth to say the WR’s carried. Which I do not have the resources to do so. I will leave it up to you.
S30: Sarasota Sailfish
• Mike Boss Jr.-6th
• Strangely we have been on sort of a run of lower QB rated QB’s after being dominated by top 3 ratings. 6th is not bad at all, and he had a good season seems what hurt he was his inefficiency at 61% which is probably where they deduct him. He did have a great playoff run winning 2 of the three OPOG’s and having 126 rating in the final bowl game. 126 would be tying someone like Tom Brady’s best game to put that into perspective. A “wild” QB that stepped it up into the playoffs to play his best ball at the right time.
S29: New York Silverbacks
• Sam Howitzer -6th
• There has been a huge trend the past 5 or 6 seasons out of nowhere that has really surprised me. Only since S33 only one QB has been top 3 in passer rating. Seems this QB just had a lot of interceptions that hurt him with 15. I think this if the first case of a QB getting bailed in the playoffs. Besides the first game where he won OPOG with a. rating of 98. In the second game having the lowest I have seen so far with 66.8 and the running game having 3tds and the defense having a pick 6. Not a great look for him in that game. In the final game he did have a great game with 113 raring, but the RB got OPOG and there was another pick 6 early on. I think the last game wasn’t a carry but was neutral.
S28: Yellowknife Wraiths
• Colby Jack-7th
• I was a little worried on that what I would find would be a bit boring with it just being good QB= win the bowl, but the trend completely changed with now every QB being 5 or lower. Being not bad QBs by any means, but more above average than top of the league. It looks like for him it was inefficiency with a 63% while everything else looked great. This seems more of a combo in the playoffs. Having a great running game, but also a QB that can get It down hen needed to. The running back winning 2 of 3 of the OPOG, but the QB did not have any bad games at the same time and did win it one game. 2 of his games also had a rating of 100 which is pretty good. This seems like you must give it to both players for the offense.
S27: Sarasota Sailfish
• Mike Boss Jr.-3rd
• As soon as I say there is a trend of course they make me look bad. This is another appearance by boss, but this time he is in the top 3. He did have one of the best playoff runs so far with having ratings of 114,128 and 106. To put it simply a great QB that played even better in the playoffs when it mattered most, but funny enough he still only won 1 of 3 OPOG’s lol. Do what you will with that.
S26: Yellowknife Wraiths
• Colby Jack-2nd
• It seems like we are back to the trend of good QB=win as this QB this season was good with the football as he only had 7INTs the whole season. He has a weird playoff to grade because two of the three games were compelte blowouts. He did win OPOG each game and had good ratings with his lowest being around 90 in the one non-blowout game. Showing that he was the OPOG each time does show he was a main reason for the win.
DISCLAIMER: From here on out I am not doing full names because after season 26 for some reason it does not let you click on player names to see the full thing so I will be just typing it how the index has it for player and teams.
S25: Saber Cats
• Jack, M.-3rd
• Seems like we have gone right back to the top three meta for the QBs. Jack does have an eight-rating difference compared to 2nd which is showing a drop off point there. This may be the second time ever where the QB did not have a great playoff run. His three ratings were 92,62,83. He also did not win a single OPOG through the playoffs. It seems like this is a case of a great running and defense team helping the QB a lot. First game having a defensive TD and the other two the RB group doing well and in the last game having the OPOG go to one of them. It also seems most of the offensive touchdowns came from the ground.
S24: Saber Cats
• Jack, M-3rd
• Did I make a mistake and look at the same season? No, I made sure this is the exact same placement and team back-to-back years which is a first. This time the difference between him and the next guy is not as large, and they are very close. SO this time he did do a little better but also had our lowest rating so far, but I do believe that we may get lower as we go on. His were 89,58,90. 58 is a very scary low number but the game was not close being 17-3. The first two games the same WR won OPOG and in the last game… a kicker did with 1 FG….. there was a defensive touchdown In the game which seems the more important part. Here it seems this was more defensive carried than it was running back carried as opposing teams scored, 10,3 and 12 which is a key to success for sure.
S23: Yellowknife Wraiths
• Bigsby, C-4th
• Not a very high rating with 81.5 being the average but in general the ratings are lower in this era it seems to put it into context. His ratings in the playoffs were 62,76,79. Now if you have been following without calculating that is by far the lowest three ratings I have seen this far. I am not sure why the past couple seasons the ratings have been so low for QBs compared to the more recent seasons. Weird thing is he didn’t have any bad games by any means but his yards and TDs were just low seemingly because of more of a running focus is my guess and his “best” game was a 2td and 2int game.
S22: Yeti
• Mcdummy, W.-5nd
• Having a low octane regular season for the most part not bad though. His ratings in the playoffs were 68,72,72. I am starring to see in this era that either everything was so competitive that it is harder for QB’s to do anything, or it is that opposite and everyone sucks. I am pretty sure that just every is competitive and that defenses are all a lot better.
S21: New Orleans Second Line
• Francisco. S.-3rd
• I am seeing ratings be a bit different this season so we may be getting out of the low rating era. Having very efficient stats of 23 and 5. Not putting up huge numbers but being very efficient and well played. His playoff ratings were 70,92,107. Of this recent era it is the best by far finally having an over 100 ratings on a game. Having this game in the most important game of all is very important. Really impressed with the stats in the final game as well 353 with 3tds and one Int.
S20: Copperheads
• Cole, E.-6th
• One of the lowest we have and a clear out of nowhere lower point after a stream of higher placements. The playoff ratings were 85,70,128. Not great performances, but in the Bowl game came out slinging it. 4tds 300+ yards and only 1int. 4tds in a game like this is hard to argue with and was player of the game in the most important game. While being lower in the regular season he played well enough the first two games and balled out like the best QB by far in the final game.
Conclusion:
I will add onto this someday with the last 19 seasons and probably the current ones that do go by in that time. I do want to recap that part of the things I have found. Out of the 24 seasons that we looked through 15 of the QBs were in the top three that season. Which does show good QB in the top three gives you a pretty good chance to go all the way. Which does make a lot of sense. If you extent it to 4th it actually only adds one to make it 16/24. I will say that there were some clear trends during the seasons.
• S44-S37=good QB means you win
o In this part every season except one had a QB in the top three. To be fair can mean a QB has a good offensive supporting cast two because of the rating not just the QB strength itself. I will say though that during this time if your QB was not in the top three you would have had a 1/8 chance compared to 1/3 being which one of the top three will win.
• S36-S28= mid QB was best?
o During this time the best was 3rd having few thirds, but there were a lot in the 4 through 7 range. This could be due to contract constraints causing mid-level QBs to be the most efficient or maybe they were still on rookie deals? A lot of these QBs may have also had great defenses helping which goes to supporting casts. Some of them also heroic performances in the playoffs even if they were average in the regular season. Like in S33. If you can invest in other places and have an average QB step into a powerhouse QB in the playoffs that seem to be the formula during this time.
• S27-S20= Lower ratings and scoring in general.
o It seemed during this time there were a lot of top threes, but weirdly even the top three ratings were not very high with 90 being able to get you there some season which was not possible in the earlier seasons with the high players being near 100 or more. The TDs and general stats were also much lower. I will contribute this to higher competition with there being a lower number of teams. Causing more teams to be stacked and harder to create a bigger difference between them. This also has a huge impact on QBs as there are lower amount of QBs in general and probably had to max earn to even be considered for one.
This was really fun for me because I got to learn a bit of history and see some of the great playoff runs by some of these QBs and I was hoping to find a QB that came out of nowhere and showed up. I did find one season like that and I could not be happier and I really hope the user of that player does end up seeing this and want to say if you weren’t appreciated for it you should be given your flowers for it. I know this was a lot to read so if you did read through it all or even some of it I appreciate you and hope you enjoyed and maybe saw your past player/player mentioned in here and I also apologize if I said you got carried lol was not personal I promise!
Sidenote: I refer the ultiimus bowl as the bowl game several times and that is what I mean when I say it. I also know this looks like a wall of text, but I tried to make it look a little neater lol
Here is the template I will be going by:
• QB- place in Qb rating that year
• Talk about their regular season stats and go how they did in the playoffs and some of the context that I can find.
Top 3: 15
Lowest place: Season 33: 9th
S44: Honolulu Hahalua
• QB: Nova Montagne-2nd
• Great regular season, but he also had an amazing playoff run. Final game with a 130 QB rating and an average over the three of at least a 100. A case where the QB play was good throughout the whole season and played even better in the playoffs which lead them to be able to complete the goal. This is one case where it is simple. Good QB Good team and did well when it mattered entirely. Good and good nothing much to investigate there.
S43: Baltimore Hawks
• QB: Preston Beatz-1st
• Amazing regular season, but in the playoffs it gets interesting. First amazing round game did great. 2nd and bowl game are where it gets interesting. The 2nd round he had more of an average game with no TD, but no INT. Wining in a close game where the kicker had most of the action. The bowl game though a rating of 48 and an interception with no TD. The defense also had a TD in this game which for sure made the difference in the game. Seems like a defense picking up a QB that had a bad game after having such a great season. Could be also facing great defenses in the playoffs as well. Great regular season okay playoffs, but still won because the rest of the team picked him up.
S42: Arizona Outlaws
• QB: Donovan Winters III-1st
• This is a clean-cut case. Good regular season decent to good playoff performance. They also dominated in each game so stats can be a bit misleading for that. Not having to go crazy because they did so well. So far it’s been a pretty clear trend, but we will see. Good defense and a great QB will lead to success.
S41: Cape Town Crash
• QB: Creg Jerrith IV-3rd
• Looking at it this seems like a good QB that was even better during the playoffs. Having three good games in a row. First two having over 100 QB rating and the last being in the 80s. In the regular season he also had a good ratio to TD and interceptions but did not have a staggering number of TDs. A Tom Brady type of season where he may not have insane regular season stats, but elevates during the playoffs.
S40: Arizona Outlaws
• QB: Wendell Sailor -1st
• Ranked first in QB Rating with a 3td to int ratio nothing wrong it seems in the regular season with the team also having a great record. In the playoffs he did continue his good play though, but in the bowl game he had an almost perfect game with a 124 rating when it mattered most. So far good play has continued into playoffs or improved.
S39: Yellowknife Wraiths
• QB: Adrian St. Christmas-5th
• Our first QB that was ranked outside the top 3 so far. It seems he wasn’t the more accurate at times, but nothing glaringly bad he was still top 5. When he got into the playoffs…..he did more than step up. He had ratings of 113,134,125 in three blowout games where he clearly had a big impact on that. This is part of the reason why I wanted to do this. This is by far the best run so far. This could be just a case of an underperforming regular season, but I think this was a case of having his best three games at the right time. Not saying he had to carry this team, but he was playing like he had to. 11tds and 1 int over three games. Not much more you can ask out of your QB then that. An amazing playoff run that should be remembered by everyone especially from that team.
S38: Arizona Outlaws
• QB: Wendell Sailor -1st
• First QB repeat so far! Having a great regular season and great playoffs nothing much to really complain or say here. A great QB that stayed great during the playoffs. I will note that he won three close games in a row. Which means that if he was worse they could have easily lost.
S37: Arizona Outlaws
• QB: Wendell Sailor -1st
• Well… the first repat is also the first three peat! He has also been 1st all three times. Which makes it safe to say that he has been a great reason for their winning. It is not something you can do accidentally. This time in the playoffs he did even better than he did in the regular season. His rating was above 100 every game and one with 124 in the bowl game. Again a “perfect” QB so far looking at it the past three playoff bowl wins.
S36: Honolulu Hahalua
• QB: Dexter Zaylren-5th
• Tied for the lowest so far. By no means did he have a bad regular season at all. Good TD/INT ratio and good numbers just not a ton of yards. He did have a good playoff run. High 90s, high 80s and than 110. I cannot say he had an incredible run to carry his team in the end, but he played more than well enough to win the games. Most likely good team that had a QB that did enough to win.
S35: Honolulu Hahalua
• QB: Dexter Zaylren-3rd
• Our second repeat, but our first back-to-back. Great regular season better than the one after and in the playoffs did not disappoint. High 90s and low 100s. Seemed to be more consistent through it all and dominant throughout. No problems at all as they got ahead early most games so cannot expect huge games from the QB.
S34: Chicago Butchers
• Kazimir Oles Jr-3rd
• The QB was a top QB during the regular season and had a great playoff run besides the second round where he had a blow average game. Not a perfect run by any means, but generally good and good enough to win it all. This was because in the second game there were a ton of field goals which was enough to get them out ahead.
S33: Baltimore Hawks
• Gimmy Jaroppolo Jr.-9th
• Now this is interesting. The lowest regular season ranking by far. 28TD and 16INT is not something to be super excited about, but what is really going to determine here is how he performed in the playoffs. Looking at the playoffs this is an insanely weird run. He had a rating of 76, but also got Offensive POG….. not what you would expect. He did have a touchdown run and no interceptions so maybe they are not valuating the rushing right. The second playoff game gets even weirder. The offensive player of the game was the opponent QB in a loss. Gimmy had a rating of 79.6 which is better, but still not great. He had 1TD and 2 INT which seems worse, but he did have 300 yards and the win which is all that matters. He also did ot get carried by the defense or the rushing game as the rushing game wasn’t great and the defense had no turnovers. So he may not have played amazing, but he did enough to win. NOW, in the bowl game this is an incredible story. Before I tell you his stat line, his team was done 24 in the first quarter. You may think…. how did he win after something like that. He only went on to have 5TDS 396 passing yards (ill call it 400) and only one INT. to lead his team to a 41-38 W. He pulled off the Patriots vs Falcons comeback but even more insane. This was a hard carry job in the bowl game if I have ever Tom Brady has had as good of a game as his highest rating is 124 and Gimmy had 131 and unlike the real-life jimmy he had one of the best bowl performances possible.
S32: New York Silverbacks
• Sam Howitzer-3rd
• A good regular season which got him to third nothing to say there. The INTs are a little high, but he has the numbers to make up for it. Interesting playoff case where he was above average the first too and below on the bowl game. The player of the game went to him all three times even in the game with an about 80 rating. Which you could say could have gone to a RB with 2 touchdowns but the RB only had 54 yards so that is hard to say. Doing enough to win is also just as important.
S31: Honolulu Hahalua
• Joliet Christ Jr.-8th
• The second lowest that we have gotten so far with a lot of interceptions brining him down with 15. Now this is a completely different case to the other lower rating QB. He did not win one POG in the playoffs so you may think that he got carried…. Well two of the winners were WR’s. He had high ratings in 2 of 3 and the last not being bad. 108,96,87. According to the awards he got carried by the WR’s, but I do think he was probably snubbed in the second game. You would have to go very in depth to say the WR’s carried. Which I do not have the resources to do so. I will leave it up to you.
S30: Sarasota Sailfish
• Mike Boss Jr.-6th
• Strangely we have been on sort of a run of lower QB rated QB’s after being dominated by top 3 ratings. 6th is not bad at all, and he had a good season seems what hurt he was his inefficiency at 61% which is probably where they deduct him. He did have a great playoff run winning 2 of the three OPOG’s and having 126 rating in the final bowl game. 126 would be tying someone like Tom Brady’s best game to put that into perspective. A “wild” QB that stepped it up into the playoffs to play his best ball at the right time.
S29: New York Silverbacks
• Sam Howitzer -6th
• There has been a huge trend the past 5 or 6 seasons out of nowhere that has really surprised me. Only since S33 only one QB has been top 3 in passer rating. Seems this QB just had a lot of interceptions that hurt him with 15. I think this if the first case of a QB getting bailed in the playoffs. Besides the first game where he won OPOG with a. rating of 98. In the second game having the lowest I have seen so far with 66.8 and the running game having 3tds and the defense having a pick 6. Not a great look for him in that game. In the final game he did have a great game with 113 raring, but the RB got OPOG and there was another pick 6 early on. I think the last game wasn’t a carry but was neutral.
S28: Yellowknife Wraiths
• Colby Jack-7th
• I was a little worried on that what I would find would be a bit boring with it just being good QB= win the bowl, but the trend completely changed with now every QB being 5 or lower. Being not bad QBs by any means, but more above average than top of the league. It looks like for him it was inefficiency with a 63% while everything else looked great. This seems more of a combo in the playoffs. Having a great running game, but also a QB that can get It down hen needed to. The running back winning 2 of 3 of the OPOG, but the QB did not have any bad games at the same time and did win it one game. 2 of his games also had a rating of 100 which is pretty good. This seems like you must give it to both players for the offense.
S27: Sarasota Sailfish
• Mike Boss Jr.-3rd
• As soon as I say there is a trend of course they make me look bad. This is another appearance by boss, but this time he is in the top 3. He did have one of the best playoff runs so far with having ratings of 114,128 and 106. To put it simply a great QB that played even better in the playoffs when it mattered most, but funny enough he still only won 1 of 3 OPOG’s lol. Do what you will with that.
S26: Yellowknife Wraiths
• Colby Jack-2nd
• It seems like we are back to the trend of good QB=win as this QB this season was good with the football as he only had 7INTs the whole season. He has a weird playoff to grade because two of the three games were compelte blowouts. He did win OPOG each game and had good ratings with his lowest being around 90 in the one non-blowout game. Showing that he was the OPOG each time does show he was a main reason for the win.
DISCLAIMER: From here on out I am not doing full names because after season 26 for some reason it does not let you click on player names to see the full thing so I will be just typing it how the index has it for player and teams.
S25: Saber Cats
• Jack, M.-3rd
• Seems like we have gone right back to the top three meta for the QBs. Jack does have an eight-rating difference compared to 2nd which is showing a drop off point there. This may be the second time ever where the QB did not have a great playoff run. His three ratings were 92,62,83. He also did not win a single OPOG through the playoffs. It seems like this is a case of a great running and defense team helping the QB a lot. First game having a defensive TD and the other two the RB group doing well and in the last game having the OPOG go to one of them. It also seems most of the offensive touchdowns came from the ground.
S24: Saber Cats
• Jack, M-3rd
• Did I make a mistake and look at the same season? No, I made sure this is the exact same placement and team back-to-back years which is a first. This time the difference between him and the next guy is not as large, and they are very close. SO this time he did do a little better but also had our lowest rating so far, but I do believe that we may get lower as we go on. His were 89,58,90. 58 is a very scary low number but the game was not close being 17-3. The first two games the same WR won OPOG and in the last game… a kicker did with 1 FG….. there was a defensive touchdown In the game which seems the more important part. Here it seems this was more defensive carried than it was running back carried as opposing teams scored, 10,3 and 12 which is a key to success for sure.
S23: Yellowknife Wraiths
• Bigsby, C-4th
• Not a very high rating with 81.5 being the average but in general the ratings are lower in this era it seems to put it into context. His ratings in the playoffs were 62,76,79. Now if you have been following without calculating that is by far the lowest three ratings I have seen this far. I am not sure why the past couple seasons the ratings have been so low for QBs compared to the more recent seasons. Weird thing is he didn’t have any bad games by any means but his yards and TDs were just low seemingly because of more of a running focus is my guess and his “best” game was a 2td and 2int game.
S22: Yeti
• Mcdummy, W.-5nd
• Having a low octane regular season for the most part not bad though. His ratings in the playoffs were 68,72,72. I am starring to see in this era that either everything was so competitive that it is harder for QB’s to do anything, or it is that opposite and everyone sucks. I am pretty sure that just every is competitive and that defenses are all a lot better.
S21: New Orleans Second Line
• Francisco. S.-3rd
• I am seeing ratings be a bit different this season so we may be getting out of the low rating era. Having very efficient stats of 23 and 5. Not putting up huge numbers but being very efficient and well played. His playoff ratings were 70,92,107. Of this recent era it is the best by far finally having an over 100 ratings on a game. Having this game in the most important game of all is very important. Really impressed with the stats in the final game as well 353 with 3tds and one Int.
S20: Copperheads
• Cole, E.-6th
• One of the lowest we have and a clear out of nowhere lower point after a stream of higher placements. The playoff ratings were 85,70,128. Not great performances, but in the Bowl game came out slinging it. 4tds 300+ yards and only 1int. 4tds in a game like this is hard to argue with and was player of the game in the most important game. While being lower in the regular season he played well enough the first two games and balled out like the best QB by far in the final game.
Conclusion:
I will add onto this someday with the last 19 seasons and probably the current ones that do go by in that time. I do want to recap that part of the things I have found. Out of the 24 seasons that we looked through 15 of the QBs were in the top three that season. Which does show good QB in the top three gives you a pretty good chance to go all the way. Which does make a lot of sense. If you extent it to 4th it actually only adds one to make it 16/24. I will say that there were some clear trends during the seasons.
• S44-S37=good QB means you win
o In this part every season except one had a QB in the top three. To be fair can mean a QB has a good offensive supporting cast two because of the rating not just the QB strength itself. I will say though that during this time if your QB was not in the top three you would have had a 1/8 chance compared to 1/3 being which one of the top three will win.
• S36-S28= mid QB was best?
o During this time the best was 3rd having few thirds, but there were a lot in the 4 through 7 range. This could be due to contract constraints causing mid-level QBs to be the most efficient or maybe they were still on rookie deals? A lot of these QBs may have also had great defenses helping which goes to supporting casts. Some of them also heroic performances in the playoffs even if they were average in the regular season. Like in S33. If you can invest in other places and have an average QB step into a powerhouse QB in the playoffs that seem to be the formula during this time.
• S27-S20= Lower ratings and scoring in general.
o It seemed during this time there were a lot of top threes, but weirdly even the top three ratings were not very high with 90 being able to get you there some season which was not possible in the earlier seasons with the high players being near 100 or more. The TDs and general stats were also much lower. I will contribute this to higher competition with there being a lower number of teams. Causing more teams to be stacked and harder to create a bigger difference between them. This also has a huge impact on QBs as there are lower amount of QBs in general and probably had to max earn to even be considered for one.
This was really fun for me because I got to learn a bit of history and see some of the great playoff runs by some of these QBs and I was hoping to find a QB that came out of nowhere and showed up. I did find one season like that and I could not be happier and I really hope the user of that player does end up seeing this and want to say if you weren’t appreciated for it you should be given your flowers for it. I know this was a lot to read so if you did read through it all or even some of it I appreciate you and hope you enjoyed and maybe saw your past player/player mentioned in here and I also apologize if I said you got carried lol was not personal I promise!