01-04-2025, 09:35 PM
(12-31-2024, 08:12 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: QB Rating has existed since 1973, just 3 years less than the Bengals existing in the NFL. It's been over half a century. QB Rating is older than over 2/3rds of the US population.
Because I am not warping my views and beliefs of not making sense just to align it with what's potentially most beneficial as a Bengals fan, it's weird? I find that thought process weird.
Something doesn't make sense. Also I am a Bengals fan. Those are two separate things. Thinking that because I am a Bengals fan that something must make sense is really strange.
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In baseball you don't really get to choose to have a ton more plate appearances. You have a PA and then you have to wait until the other 8 guy in the lineup get a PA and then you can have another. You play a full season and you're going to have ~700-750 PA. Your availability is the major determining factor in opportunities, so counting isn't terribly illogical there though as you pointed out they switched to AVG in batting title because it's simply better.
In football you can play a whole season and have either >700 pass attempts or <500 attempts depending on your OC, even if it's the same player.
Matthew Stafford 2012 (16 games): 435 completions on 727 attempts (59.8%)
Matthew Stafford in 2021 (17 games): 404 completions on 601 attempts (67.2%)
Same player, different OCs. Former gets 1/3rd of a triple crown because he was an inefficient mass thrower and the latter doesn't despite being vastly superior because of the playcalling? That just doesn't make sense.
Pro football started in the 1920s/30s. It was 50 years before that was a stat.
Comp% is not part of the TC.
In Horse Racing, the trem started to be used in the 1920s. In baseball, the BBWA starting using the term in the early part of the 20th century.
So, you see, 1973 is a lot later than that.
