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Posted by Chase Stuart on Wednesday, February 11, 2009
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=1486
excerpted here:
***Note the 3 Cowboys int he top 30: Owens, Irvin, Hayes.
**** Also if you view full article you'll see the fraud Lynn Swann at 85 and Drew
Pearson at 66 ....dfepiafneifipjngfpidsfds..... hall of fame voters..daslifhsfhsofoh ... sorry.
On Monday, I described a formula I created to rate every WR season in NFL history. On Tuesday, I listed the best seasons ever, the best seasons each year and the best season by any receiver for each franchise. Today, we’ll get to the career list.
Compiling career value isn’t that difficult. I took 100% of the WR’s best season, 95% of his second best season, 90% of his third best, and so on. Let’s use Michael Irvin as an example, who had nine seasons in his career where he ranked above the baseline.
year rec recyd rectd ACY tmatt ACY/A NFL Value Wt CarVal
1995 111 1603 10 2358 494 4.77 2.22 1262 100 1262
1991 93 1523 8 2148 500 4.30 2.35 972 95 923
1993 88 1330 7 1910 475 4.02 2.13 900 90 810
1992 78 1396 7 1926 491 3.92 2.25 820 85 697
1994 79 1241 6 1756 448 3.92 2.18 781 80 625
1996 64 962 2 1322 487 3.95 2.21 582 75 437
1997 75 1180 9 1735 553 3.14 2.14 552 70 386
1998 74 1057 1 1447 474 3.05 2.27 372 65 242
1989 26 378 2 548 513 2.85 2.31 104 60 62
5443
This is the same formula we’ve used here to rate the QBs and for Doug’s Approximate Value method. Once you add up the career values for every WR, you get the following list of the top 100 WRs. Perhaps more specifically, these guys have created the most value for their teams in their careers:
rk name val rookyr
1 Jerry Rice 9095 1985
2 Don Hutson 7335 1935
3 Marvin Harrison 6890 1996
4 Terrell Owens 6463 1996
5 Randy Moss 6260 1998
6 Lance Alworth 6045 1962
7 Steve Largent 5755 1976
8 Michael Irvin 5443 1988
9 Raymond Berry 5367 1955
10 Jimmy Smith 5352 1992
11 Tim Brown 5182 1988
12 Paul Warfield 5141 1964
13 Don Maynard 5061 1958
14 Torry Holt 5038 1999
15 James Lofton 4930 1978
16 Bob Hayes 4909 1965
17 Cris Carter 4894 1987
18 Harold Jackson 4785 1968
19 Isaac Bruce 4752 1994
20 Rod Smith 4687 1995
21 Tommy McDonald 4642 1957
22 Charley Taylor 4594 1964
23 Herman Moore 4564 1991
24 Bobby Mitchell 4377 1958
25 Otis Taylor 4292 1965
26 Henry Ellard 4289 1983
27 Cliff Branch 4222 1972
28 Steve Smith 4211 2001
29 Hines Ward 4197 1998
30 Del Shofner 4146 1957
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=1486
excerpted here:
***Note the 3 Cowboys int he top 30: Owens, Irvin, Hayes.
**** Also if you view full article you'll see the fraud Lynn Swann at 85 and Drew
Pearson at 66 ....dfepiafneifipjngfpidsfds..... hall of fame voters..daslifhsfhsofoh ... sorry.
On Monday, I described a formula I created to rate every WR season in NFL history. On Tuesday, I listed the best seasons ever, the best seasons each year and the best season by any receiver for each franchise. Today, we’ll get to the career list.
Compiling career value isn’t that difficult. I took 100% of the WR’s best season, 95% of his second best season, 90% of his third best, and so on. Let’s use Michael Irvin as an example, who had nine seasons in his career where he ranked above the baseline.
year rec recyd rectd ACY tmatt ACY/A NFL Value Wt CarVal
1995 111 1603 10 2358 494 4.77 2.22 1262 100 1262
1991 93 1523 8 2148 500 4.30 2.35 972 95 923
1993 88 1330 7 1910 475 4.02 2.13 900 90 810
1992 78 1396 7 1926 491 3.92 2.25 820 85 697
1994 79 1241 6 1756 448 3.92 2.18 781 80 625
1996 64 962 2 1322 487 3.95 2.21 582 75 437
1997 75 1180 9 1735 553 3.14 2.14 552 70 386
1998 74 1057 1 1447 474 3.05 2.27 372 65 242
1989 26 378 2 548 513 2.85 2.31 104 60 62
5443
This is the same formula we’ve used here to rate the QBs and for Doug’s Approximate Value method. Once you add up the career values for every WR, you get the following list of the top 100 WRs. Perhaps more specifically, these guys have created the most value for their teams in their careers:
rk name val rookyr
1 Jerry Rice 9095 1985
2 Don Hutson 7335 1935
3 Marvin Harrison 6890 1996
4 Terrell Owens 6463 1996
5 Randy Moss 6260 1998
6 Lance Alworth 6045 1962
7 Steve Largent 5755 1976
8 Michael Irvin 5443 1988
9 Raymond Berry 5367 1955
10 Jimmy Smith 5352 1992
11 Tim Brown 5182 1988
12 Paul Warfield 5141 1964
13 Don Maynard 5061 1958
14 Torry Holt 5038 1999
15 James Lofton 4930 1978
16 Bob Hayes 4909 1965
17 Cris Carter 4894 1987
18 Harold Jackson 4785 1968
19 Isaac Bruce 4752 1994
20 Rod Smith 4687 1995
21 Tommy McDonald 4642 1957
22 Charley Taylor 4594 1964
23 Herman Moore 4564 1991
24 Bobby Mitchell 4377 1958
25 Otis Taylor 4292 1965
26 Henry Ellard 4289 1983
27 Cliff Branch 4222 1972
28 Steve Smith 4211 2001
29 Hines Ward 4197 1998
30 Del Shofner 4146 1957
