Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:
Originally posted by TheGore49er:
+ Show all quotes
#obssesed
at least you're not sending rage emails to rubber anymore lulz.
What are you talking about? I don't think I've ever sent an email to anyone here. I've responded to angry, racist PMs, and I've argued my case about warnings, but that's about it.
.
.
Anyway, I think I've found out part of why Jimmy "just wins," on a more analytic level than usually discussed around here. I'm working on my own quarterback rating metric, and so far Jimmy has done pretty well, but not great. However, after looking at 9 guys on my 2 minute drill before half time stat, Jimmy is thus far blowing away the competition (which includes Tom Brady and Josh Allen). I can't say for sure yet, because I've not determined the Pearson Correlation Coefficient yet (when compared to win%), which i will do after painstakingly going through every game the 31 QBs I'm looking at played in, but to give you an idea:
(obviously subject to human error, since I'm manually looking at every play-by-play)
Two minute drill before half time success rate (defined as drives which pass the two minute mark and result in scores):
Allen: 0.500
Brady: 0.476
Jimmy: 0.846
Jimmy is almost twice as good as Brady at it. Now, again, I can't say this is really why he "just wins" yet, because I have to do an analysis of how this statistic correlates with winning. It probably is NOT such a strong correlation, because (1) Neither my opening drive metric (defined as an opening drive that ends in a touchdown) nor my "clutch" metric (defined as a drive with 4 minutes or less left in which the QB's team is tied or trailing by one score which results in a lead change or tie, respectfully), strongly correlated with winning, and (2) Jimmy's win% is obviously less than his Half Time 2 min drill success rate (at 0.600). And since I brought it up, Jimmy's "clutch" success rate as defined above is better than average, but not the best.
But, it's probably going to show itself to be a factor. I've seen a couple other factors which help Jimmy "out win" his intuitive statistical output, but I'll discuss them when I finally finish this.
We've been over and over this Jimmy wins stuff. I'm not sure who you're trying to convince anymore since the 49ers seem to have made up their mind. I doubt other teams spend a lot of time reading this forum sothere is no point to continuing to try and convince anyone that Jimmy is a winner.
Jacksonville drafted the consensus best QB in the draft last year. He was a 4 year starter playing a tough schedule. He had a national championship under his belt. Many people were calling him a generational QB. Well we saw how much of a difference he made. Without the supporting cast they ended up with the #1 pick again. So much for QBs win games.
I'm not interested in doing this to "prove" anyone wrong or right. The reason I'm interested in doing it is because other metrics show things that don't make sense, like Kirk Cousins being basically elite, or Jimmy winning a lot despite putting up pedestrian numbers. It is nothing but the desire to understand, and the fact that numbers are fun to me, that is motivating me.
And since we're here, Kirk Cousins has thus far done TERRIBLE in anything related to clutch, so maybe that's the reason. He still ends up rating pretty high, but those things bring him down a bit. (for example, Cousins' half time two minute drill success rate is a paltry 0.278).