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Funeral asked in SportsFootball (American) · 10 years ago

Is the QBR the most flawed stat in history?

Take for example two random quarterbacks.

Quarterback A: Stats: 841 yards, four touchdowns, three interceptions 56.5 % completion

QBR: 62.0, well above average.

Quarterback B: Stats: 886 yards, six touchdowns, four interceptions 63% completion rate

QBR: 32.3, awful

Quarteback A is Chad Henne, starter for the 0-3 Dolphins.

Quarterback B is Mark Sanchez, starter of the 2-1 Jets.

The QBR was made to factor in things not shown by the passer rating to show a quarterbacks overall ability to win. Clearly, something is horribly wrong.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    LOL at this loser

    What's wrong is your brain thinking Sanchez is a good QB

    I know you want to suck his dick so bad but he's not interested in a loser like you

    Sanchez was EXPOSED by the Raiders, deal with it, loser

  • Chaos
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Yes. Mark Sanchez has had a better season than Chad Henne. The only reason when Henne stats looks so good is because of week 1 when he kept passing it against New England's prevent defense and got 416 yards off them. Mark Sanchez > Chad Henne

    I lol at the idiots who call Mark Sanchez awful. Haters gonna hate

    Exposed by the Raiders hmm.... 93.8 QB rating, 61% completion rate, 369 yards, 1 INT and 2 TDs are exposed ehh. Add to the fact that he got hit 8-12 times due to a supposedly "great" offensive line (which has sucked this year so far and didn't have Mangold against the Raiders) and even had a broken nose due to the dirty Raiders. So, yeah, LOL at your ignorance.

  • 10 years ago

    You must have figured those ratings wrong. Even a quarterback who throws an incomplete pass gets 39.6 on the NFL system. A rating of 62 is poor, and one of 32.3 would be beyond awful. Even Ryan Leaf--Ryan Leaf!--ended his career at 50.0.

    The NFL website gives Henne's rating as 82.4, and Sanchez' as 90.1. An 82.4 would be about average, and 90.1 above-average. Anything over 100 is considered outstanding.

    With that said, I have never been impressed with the system. It's very heavily biased toward passers who work in a high-percentage passing attack such as a West Coast Offense. Even a mediocre quarterback who plays in that type of system will usually have a rating near 100 if his receivers are good enough.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Henne's rating is actually 82.4 while Sanchez is at 90.1, so I have no idea what you're whining about. The reason QBR doesn't factor in wins is because some teams win despite their quarterback, like Chicago with Cutler, New York with Sanchez or Manning and Pittsburgh with Roethlisberger.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Diego he is refering to ESPN's TQBR not the regular QB rating.

    Henne has an awful D you can't blame the losses on him. Sanchez has a great D and O line, which helps him win games.

  • 10 years ago

    Rating is just a complicated mathematical formula that nobody knows by memory.

    If you were measuring quarterbacks by rating, Aaron Rodgers would be the best to ever take a snap, Tony Romo would 5th all time and there would be 145 quarterbacks better than Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw.

    Furthermore, Jeff George (80.4) would better than John Elway (79.9)

  • 10 years ago

    Chad Henne has done more to positively contribute to the Dolphins' chances winning than Mark Sanchez has. In that, the stat seems to be accurate.

    Also, Mark Sanchez IS an awful QB.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    It is an indicator. It doesnt take into account when a smart QB like Manning or Brady throw the ball out of bounds quickly because they are about to get sacked. It doesn't show when a QB like Vick is scrambling around and gains yardage or when he scrambles around and hits his own man and hurts his neck. It is just an indicator.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    QBR is a sad attempt by ESPN of trying to make something relavent.

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