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The article is in the thread link below. I noticed we had a lot of people chiming in that went quiet once the idea of "on-target" and "catchable ball" was brought into the question of, what does accuracy mean?

Those two metrics seem very relevant and I wouldn't be shocked if Pyne were much higher than Buchner at both. Neither here nor there, but it would be nice if we could see these stats on our QBs.

The concept referred to in the article is essentially Sabermetrics but for football. As we all know in the early 2000s this was just a nerdy thing but ultimately changed the way baseball stats were looked at, and in a lot of ways changed the way the game was played. The traditional stats, a .300 hitter for example really told us nothing about the hitter in terms of how much they contributed to the success of the offense. It just told us they got a hit 1 out of roughly every 3 times. You can't figure out what type of offense you have or how your lineup should be structured if that's all you know. You need to know what type of hits, how many bases, how many runs that produces, etc, etc.

Over time, more and more have begun to understand there is little advantage in focusing on traditional stats because they do not represent the actual productivity of the player and more or less allow us to create emotionally charged fantasies of players based on our opinion. Often times this stems from a single play or some other event and has less to do with what the player actually does most of the time. ESPN did a deep dive on this in their magazine somewhere around 2002 and 2003. They rated the worst MLB players at every position. All big name stars. Joe DiMaggio was almost the Center Fielder.

KPIs are big in the world of big data. If you don't have them or you have the wrong metrics they lead you astray. Without them, we're left to pure opinion which humans are usually terrible at, but high on and not lacking.

Curious to see what you guys think are metrics that define "quarterback contribution"?
What would make the complete QB if you viewed the QB through this lens? Without all the bs paper stats and star rankings that are pure opinion.

See, for example: how short QBs have changed the game. How mini slot WRs have changed it. How giant basketball player TEs changed the game. Going for it on 4th down by having statistical analysts making those calls. All of these are statistical decisions, based on defined KPIs and almost no room for our opinion driven past ways of doing things.


Link: https://forum.uhnd.com/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=6&msgid=498829