(03-13-2019, 09:31 AM)JackCity Wrote:

(03-13-2019, 08:58 AM)hb1148 Wrote: Lol, you asked, so don't blame the messenger. The stats are completely accurate and I'll stand by them. If you disagree that being within 90% of average is not close to average then that's your problem. Someone may decide to post a bell curve and determine what the standard deviation is for some of those stats but honestly, at this point you've gone completely off the farm/topic and it's not worth it.

I was expecting a strawman reply and you delivered with aplomb. You tried prove Bortles played average this year by saying most of his stats were average or close enough to it not to matter, the problem with your assertion is that ALL of his stats were below average meaning he was not in fact close to an average QB. 

Blake being 7% worse than league average in completion % is a massive gap..you know...as evidenced by him being 35th out of 41 QBs , but you already know all of this of course. 

I can't wait to use your method of defining QB stats throughout the season lol

To be fair this isn't rigorous statistical evaluation.

If we wanted to be anal about it first we'd have to determine what average means. If it's based on statistics it would have to all be rate based. Then we'd have to figure out what a standard deviation is in that stat, then we could figure up the likelihood of an "average" QB having that statistical performance. Doesn't really seem worth the time. We already know he was good enough to be minutes and a defensive nosedive from the Superbowl. If he's truly below average it's probably not that far.

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