New QB Rating?

yup. what's so challenging about just writing a few comments on how YOU rate the player by, you know, watching him, you know, watching him play?

 

Would it discount incompletions due to drops by the receiver or interceptions due to tipped/deflected passes?

 

No one cares about quarterback rating now, and no one will care about any new rating system. Football is a sport where the only numbers anyone truly cares about are on the scoreboard. Which is refreshing, I say

 

Scoreboard!

 

Third down conversions don't distinguish between 3rd-and-1 and 3rd-and-17. They don't recognize that sometimes on 3rd and 9, the team with the ball is happy to punt after running a play that wipes more time off the clock. Every third down conversion isn't some combination of genius and improv. Often it's just a 260-pound back leaning forward behind a 340-pound lineman.

 

I really want to see the formula explained, but from what I read, YAC is still factored in.. it's just greatly diminished.

 

I really don't want to see the formula explained because it's useless anyway. I already thought MNF found a way last year to be the least enjoyable experience in the TV-watching universe by having Jon Gruden on there. But now that they're pimping this nonsense, it will be even less enjoyable.

 

They should of just went with the Football Outsiders system:

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/qb

 

I don't see what your enjoyment of MNF has to do with a stat and its potential use by scouts to evaluate quarterback performance.

To me, it's worth a look because I hate the old passer rating.

If Jeff Sagarin and Mel Greenberg can develop shit in their moms' basements that catches on, you'd think the WWL's research folks-- who, love or loathe ESPN everybody agrees are some of the best around-- can come up with something interesting.

But again, I want to understand the stat itself.

 

If John Gruden had a hand in developing the new metric every QB will be great.

 

How about they just get rid of the meaningless fucking stat?

 

Please let me know when a scout who isn't paid by ESPN ever finds this hocus-pocus useful. They don't even use passer rating, so this is hardly a replacement for that. No, what will happen is every time the QB makes a throw the ESPN meter will update his QBR and the booth will talk incessantly about it as if everyone in the world is using this number, just as ESPN likes to show what the win probability percentage is when there is one out in the seventh inning.