Yet another Dak stat post

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Not really disagreeing with you per se but noting it is a bit more involved than that.
QB rating has largely changed due to rule changes. It's not a straight line adjustment of X years equals X points.

As passing has become more prevalent and necessary the ratings have gone up.

As to Winston well the QB rating is a bit of a wildcard stats that ignores a lot of negative plays like Winston's fumbles and charges him only a small negative for an INT that ends up a pick 6.
That's really more an issue with the scoring than it is an era discussion.

And again lots of sources have different scores.
Probably one I most trust copies pro football reference.
https://www.footballdb.com/leaders/career-passing-rating

It places Dak tied for 5th all-time.
And no I do not think Dak is the 5th best of all-time.
But it has him significantly ahead of his peers as well as just historic QBs.
And Aikman was far better on the field than his QB rating suggests. --probably why he created his own rating system.
I hear you.
I'm just saying that those numbers are not really adjusted.
I'm going to guess that Dak is still top 50, even adjusted for era.

I just did a quick look at 1977 vs 1987
Sure enough
  • 1977 average QB rating for top 10 QBs was 78 (Staubach was 2nd..his 87 would be about a 110 now)
  • 1987 average top for top 10 was 89 (but was exaggerated by crazy high outlier Montana..so prob closer to 88)
  • 2017 average was 100
 
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