ESPN Total QBR Rankings: Week 5

Matt Cassel comes in 4th with an impressive 86.5 (Drew Brees is 3rd with 86.7).

8 months ago JHWK 12 comments 1 recs |

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He's also now #14 overall for the season.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7081061/nfl-week-5-total-qbr-season-leaders

Chiefs now 2-3: Suck on that, Luck suckers!

by Tarkus on Oct 10, 2011 2:34 PM CDT reply actions

He was at 30th in week 2

with 17.1 and is now up to 55. I don’t know what the hell those numbers prove, but whatever it is he’s doing it better and better.

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by strathclyde on Oct 10, 2011 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions

that is a good thing

hope he continues to improve and maybe we can continue to out score our opponents

by LO Thighs on Oct 10, 2011 2:44 PM CDT reply actions

Not sure if I buy those "Clutch weight added" and "action plays"

But if you look at expected points added, Cassel still does very well (and the other good QB’s like Rodgers and Brees go to the top).

by wustl_chiefs_fan on Oct 10, 2011 2:54 PM CDT reply actions

There is NO WAY Tebow should be 5th overall. Just because he scrambled for a TD and threw a screen pass that his running back took to the house, doesn’t mean he had a good game. Before the screen pass, he was 1 of 5 (or 6) for ZERO yards. What a joke of a system.

by Chiefs447 on Oct 10, 2011 3:02 PM CDT reply actions

yep, just another useless BS. stat.

by Huston09 on Oct 10, 2011 3:06 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

I keep clicking on it to make sure I read it right

Yup, there’s Tebow, still number 5. All I can do is laugh!

by Chiefs447 on Oct 10, 2011 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions

Also Note Henne is rated 7th overall for the season

by VermeilLikesToCry on Oct 10, 2011 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions

"Hey QB ratings are flawed..."

“…so lets make a new, equally flawed, rating to confuse people.”

-ESPN

by VermeilLikesToCry on Oct 10, 2011 4:25 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

Not quite

All the new QBR does is try to level the playing field a bit and take into account WHEN plays happen instead of whether they happen or not.

Some of the rankings don’t seem to make sense but when you boil it down, the QBR is basically a means of determining which QBs contributed most to their team’s score. Henne/Tebow is rated highly for the season because the few plays he HAS made have been in clutch situations and the points they’ve scored have been a direct result of the QB making a play possible.

It’s not a perfect system but it’s one that improves over the old system in several specific ways.

Bask in the glory that is Kwame Harris. Poor Alex...

by JHWK on Oct 10, 2011 11:38 PM CDT up reply actions

More explanation on why guys like Henne and Tebow are higher than we'd expect

http://www.thephinsider.com/2011/9/13/2422683/nfl-total-qbr-miami-dolphins-chad-henne-has-10th-best-week-1

Bask in the glory that is Kwame Harris. Poor Alex...

by JHWK on Oct 10, 2011 11:55 PM CDT up reply actions

I understand it, but

I just don’t think it’s worth it for an incremental improvement. It can improve small scale ratings (like one game, but then again i can look at the full box score for one game to get a better picture), but in the end when averaged over things, it pretty much gives the same result as the classic rating system (which i’m not really a big fan of, but why have two?) .

by VermeilLikesToCry on Oct 11, 2011 7:16 PM CDT up reply actions