http://www.footballoutsiders.com/2007/07/25/ramblings/stat-analysis/5263/ the above sight has some different types of qb rankings: % of passes overthrown/thrown ahead % of passes underthrown/thrown behind % of bad passes(combination of above 2 categories) passes defended passes hit in motion/tipped at line/thrown away thrown away as % of (thrown away + sacks) they have the top 10 in each category (least and most) CP appears 3 times-guess where before you look
i think that these stats are getting too overanalytical and is just a means for people to pull up some random stats to depend their case. Who cares if a pass is overthrown or underthrown if it's incomplete? An incomplete pass is an incomplete pass no matter how you look at it. This doesn't say anything about chad that he was in the fewest in whatever category.
I agree with you for the most part. An incomplete pass is an incomplete pass regardless of whether it's overthrown or underthrown. I guess one suprising thing was that Chad had the 3rd fewest underthrows last year. Considering his arm strength (or lack there of) one might expect him to underthrow a lot of balls. Then again, Chad was never one to really play outside of his abilities so that's not really all that groundbreaking either.
It's tough to underthrown many passes when you only go deep once a game, and when half of your passes are within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage. Same idea for the thrown away percentage, the whole playbook is designed to always have a short reciever available, since odds are Chad isn't going to throw it deep. So by always having a short reciever around (RB/TE) he won't have to throw it away much. God I hate Chad.
What I'd really like to know is which QB's lead the league in 4th quarter TD passes when their team is behind on the road in December and their is a full moon.
Chad's rankings in secondary studies of this kind (I call these stats secondary because the % of completions are what most people look at) are always going to be skewed because of his style and particularly because the stats from his injury period impact the numbers as well. Truth be known, Chad did more than we ever could have expected of him, given everything that's happened to him (the injuries). That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see Clemens (or someone else) emerge soon as his heir apparent. But for now, he's the best we've got and hopefully he'll be an even better QB now that the injuries are behind him.
