Comments on: Super Bowl Leverage And the Best Postseason Passers Since 1966 http://www.footballperspective.com/super-bowl-leverage-and-the-best-postseason-passers-since-1966/ NFL History and Stats Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:36:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dan Bagels http://www.footballperspective.com/super-bowl-leverage-and-the-best-postseason-passers-since-1966/#comment-297772 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:36:14 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=17451#comment-297772 watched Plunkett for so many years this guy was a big time clutch playoff quarterback through a great deep ball and wasnt scared to through into coverage The man was simply on the wrong team in New England comming out of collage If he was a raider since day 1 we would be talking about him being a all time great

]]> By: Neil Paine http://www.footballperspective.com/super-bowl-leverage-and-the-best-postseason-passers-since-1966/#comment-76322 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 02:23:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=17451#comment-76322 In reply to Jason Slater.

The issue with that line of argument, though, is that the team with the superior ANY/A almost always wins. Since passing opened up in 1978, the winner of the ANY/A battle has won 82% of playoff games. This year, only 5 of the 10 playoff games have been won by the team who had the better ANY/A, but prior to this year we were in a four-year stretch where the ANY/A winner won 84% of playoff games (and that’s nothing compared to 1978-92, when the ANY/A winner won 89% of playoff games!). Anyway, it’s a pretty big outlier whenever a team wins without beating the opponent in ANY/A as well. The idea that it’s somehow incidental to winning isn’t supported by the data at all.

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