Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Best Quarterbacks in History (in terms of current QB Rating Formula)

Here are the Top 50 quarterbacks all-time, based on QB Rating.  I only considered those with at least 1,500 pass attempts (and there were 142 in all over the course of history that had at least 1,500 attempts).  Data is only through the full 2007 season.  I will update this list following the end of the 2008 season.  One can clearly see the bias favoring the modern quarterback.
Here's the next 50.  One needs to look at this list if you wanted to see QB's from yesteryear.
So, it begs the question, does the QB Rating system need to be changed so that fair comparisons can be made over time?  After all, the methodology behind it indexes the statistics to the 1972 season.  

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