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I was wondering if 1 of their projects could be to come up with a List of the Top QB's TOTAL CAREER Passer Ratings?? In other words, throw ALL of the numbers (Reg. season AND Post-season) together into the mix and come up with a TOTAL CAREER Passer Rating for the Top 25 or so QB's. After all, when we debate THE BEST EVER, that should be 1 stat that is considered--IMO. On another topic, you often talk about Marino and P. Manning (and now Tom Brady also) having "great" seasons; but they really didn't-----they both had great REGULAR portions of those seasons, but they didn't finish them off in a "great" fashion. Steve Young, however, did have a "great" SEASON in '94---he set what was then the Record for High Passer Rating in the Reg. season, and then topped it all off with a Record setting 6 TD Passes in the S.B. I guess Regular SEASON and Post-SEASON terms are here to stay, so the TOTAL of those would be the term "YEAR". Steve Young had a great "YEAR" in '94, but Marino only had a great Reg. season in '84.
Just a further thought on my 1st point---the Passer Rating is such a great stat to compare the overall passing abilities of each QB in the NFL. Think about it---it takes 2 such stats in baseball (batting avg. AND slugging percentage) to tell us what 1 stat tells us in football. I know it all boils down to 4 major stats to compute Passer Rating, but we know that you have to be a good, all-encompassing and competent passer in order to maintain a high rating. I give Bart Starr alot of extra credit for maintaining a Rating of 104.8 for 10 Post-season games. All of that extra pressure of the playoffs, and Starr played at such a high level that he had his TEAM in contention to win every one of those 10 games. And that 1 stat---his Passer Rating of 104.8 sums it all up. I also realize that his TOTAL CAREER Rating won't be near that high, but it would be interesting to list Reg. season, Post-season, and TOTAL CAREER Ratings and then compare all of them for each of the Top QB's.
Great to see you are expanding! If I didn't just get an internship in Seattle I would have tried for this one. Good luck!
Wish I knew more about programming because I can crank out the data with the best of them. In fact something I've worked on in excel is coming up with the starting QB for each team in every game from 1970-2007. Already have all the data just need a fancy way of putting it together.
One last request---could you compile a QB's Passer Rating for their Conference Championship and Super Bowl games only. A separate Rating just for their BIGGEST PRESSURE GAMES in their Career. Let's see who really were GREAT in the CLUTCH.