Dalton vs. Bortles article

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

QB Rating needs an OPS+ treatment, where the league average QB Rating that year is put at 100 points, and then how every many points above or below 100 a QB is, is how many % he was above or below average that year.

It would really solve a lot of problems of varying levels of offensive output for each year.

For instance, in 2017 there were 5 QBs with a QB Rating of at least 100, and 15 QBs of at least 90 QB Rating.
Meanwhile in 2005 there were 2 QBs with a QB Rating of at least 100, and 8 QBs of at least 90 QB Rating.

So if you think about it, Palmer's 101.1 QB Rating in 2005 is way more impressive than Wentz's 101.9 QB Rating in 2017.

If we had an OPS+ styled system, then we could look and see "Oh, in 2005 Palmer was 43% above average and in 2017 Wentz was 28% above average" or something like that.


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Granted, this is all based around a discussion on QB Rating, which isn't a particularly great stat (but not a particularly bad one either). Either way, it would give a much better point of dicussion for talking about QBs in different years, because even one or two years can provide a pretty big difference in what an average QB's numbers should be.