QBR: Made for TV

[PackersRS]

Fantastic article debunking the "new" stat.

Cold, Hard Football Facts.com: QBR: ESPN's Deeply Flawed Made-For-TV Stat

magine you’re a life-long Steelers fan sitting nervously on the edge of your seat during Super Bowl XLIII. Ben Roethlisberger takes the field at his own 22 yard line with just 2:30 left in a desperate effort to erase a 3-point Arizona lead.

Now imagine your buddy sitting next to you turns to say, “You know, I’d feel a lot better about Pittsburgh’s chances if Dan Orlovsky or Tyler Thigpen was calling signals because both have a better QBR than Big Ben.”

You would have looked at him and said, “You have picked a spectacularly bad time to go completely *@%!! nuts! … And what in the wide, wide world of sports is QBR?!”

Dan Orlovski ranked ahead of Roethlisberger is atrocious. As I said, it was no coincidence Manning and Brady were #1 #2 on that ranking, because it's made for some guys to look better than others.

 

[Bensalama21]

Great find! The QBR is more of an opinion of what a QB does and not just hard facts like the Passer Rating.