Yakuza Rich Dallas Cowboys Blog: Aikman, Overrated or Not...You Be the Judge

In the second half of this post, YR has an interesting analysis of Aikman's stats and whether he deserves to be in the HOF in the context of how stats that show how the passing game has changed over time...

"the passing game has drastically changed over the years. And why writers, HOF voters, commentators, analysts, etc. choose to ignore this is beyond me. So what I’ve done is take a brief look at the difference in passing and receiving statistics over the years, starting at 1966 and going through 10 year intervals. For each year, I took the top 10 QB’s.

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Aikman’s best years were from 1991-1998 where he had a QB rating of 87.1. During that time the league average was 75.0. Obviously, a big part of Aikman’s praise and HOF induction was him winning 3 Super Bowls (and being a terrific postseason player in general). But during his best years his QB rating was 16.1% above the average, which would be the equivalent of a QB having a 92 QB rating in today’s NFL."

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that guy is a complete moron

he’s judging a qb soley by stats which is ludicrous.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Aug 5, 2008 2:54 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I think you totally missed the point

I kind of wonder whether you even read it… He’s actually defending Aikman against those who do judge him solely on stats.

Nowhere in his post does he say you should judge a QB based solely on stats. What he does say is that to the extent that we do look at stats, we should look at them in the context of the league at the time and make adjustments for how it has changed to really understand what the stats mean.

He is saying that other people judge Aikman on stats and say he was “merely 43rd all time” in career passer rating and conclude that he doesn’t belong in the HOF. But what they don’t take into consideration is how the passing game has changed and how Aikman did in comparison to the league at the time.

That makes a lot of sense to me.

by scottmaui on Aug 5, 2008 3:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs