QB accuracy has many definitions across the NFL and what people use to define it will vary greatly. Myself, I took a couple of measurments from the good people at stathead.com to see if I could find a meaningful yet simple metric. I looked at three of their advanced stats: On Target Throw % (pretty simple to grasp, the percentage of times a QB hits his target), Good Throw % (basically, the percentage of throws that aren't Bad Throws by their definition) and Intended Air Yards

A few days ago we asked the question, "Who is Jalen Hurts?". In that piece I briefly mentioned a metric that I called "comeback success rate" that attempted to compare the number of times a QB had led his team to a 4th quarter comeback (or had led his team on a game winning drive) to the number of opportunities that this player had to do this. This was done by adding the number of comebacks attributed to the QB to the number of losses to estimate how often the player was trai

It's that time of year again! Are you a true football nerd? Do the tiny yet vital details of the sport fascinate you? If so, then this piece is for you! A couple years ago I developed a bulletproof and ingenious methodology to rank all the active long snappers in the NFL (credit where credit is due, I was inspired and built the system on the shoulders of this guy). For this analysis, I only included active long snappers who have appeared in an NFL game (this is why you'll not