Thoughts on Matt Ryan’s New Contract
The numbers are in for Matt Ryan via a report at PFT and his $150 million contract certainly would seem to be the new benchmark for just about every reasonable metric, so lets take a look at the deal.
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The Two Distinct Roster Construction Strategies in the NFL
With seven teams making changes to their quarterback position over the last two months, now would be a great time to discuss the two main team building strategies that teams typically employ in the NFL today, plus a third middle of the pack spending strategy that more teams are employing in 2018 than they have […]
Week 5: QB Valuations
I’ve been working on some different valuation metrics for players and wanted to post one for quarterbacks. The basis for this is how to re-assign market values based on a few factors. What I used to evaluate the players were four categories. Adjusted yards more or less measures the overall output of the player (this […]
Is the Current NFL Quarterback Overpaid?
Following the Matt Stafford $27 million a year contract there was again more discussion about how much quarterbacks are making in the NFL. One discussion is about whether a player like Stafford, who has had limited team success and is considered an above average but not top tier player, deserves it. That answer should be […]
The 2017 Sando/ESPN QB Tiers Rankings
Mike Sando has released his latest QB tiers results at ESPN and once again we’ll use that to see just how well the ranking of players matches up with salaries. For those who have never read these pieces before, Mike generally asks a number of NFL executives to slot the various quarterbacks into tiers and […]
Most and Least Valuable Quarterbacks: Week 3
As a weekly feature I’ll be assigning values based on a statistics based formula to every quarterback in the NFL. The statistical output is converted into dollar figures to reflect what a performance like this in a given week is worth to a team. The excess value created by the player is the difference between […]
Most and Least Valuable Quarterbacks: Week 2
During the offseason I did some work on valuations of a few positions and thought it might be worthwhile to look at a few of them on a weekly basis measure the value that a team is getting from their players. A player’s statistical performance is converted into a salary to attempt to put the […]