by Chase Stuart
on July 30, 2015
On Tuesday, I looked at which receivers produced the most Adjusted Catch Yards over the baseline of worst starter. Yesterday, I used that data to help identify which receivers produced their numbers in the most pass-happy offenses. Today, instead of measuring wide receivers by how often their teams passed, I want to measure them by how well they passed.
Some teams are very efficient at passing because they have great wide receivers: to be clear, today’s post doesn’t prove anything about which way the causation arrow runs. But I do think it’s worth quantifying the reality that receivers produce their numbers in very disparte environments. Let’s use Joey Galloway as an example. Galloway, longtime readers will recall, was a favorite of an early iteration of Doug Drinen’s attempts at ranking wide receivers. For similar reasons, Galloway comes out “very good” in this system, if good means producing numbers while playing for bad passing offenses (a proxy, one could argue, for playing with bad quarterbacks).
Galloway produced 2,071 Adjusted Catch Yards above the baseline in his career, good for an unremarkable 84th place on Tuesday’s list. But let’s look at the 8 seasons that get Galloway there: [continue reading…]
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Joey Galloway,
WR Ranking Systems
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by Chase Stuart
on July 20, 2012
Let’s start with some trivia before moving to today’s post:
- Only two quarterback-receiver pairs have ever topped the 10,000 yard mark. Can you name them?
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The same quarterback was part of both pairs.
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- Only two receivers (minimum: 7,000 yards) gained at least 93% of their career receiving yards from one quarterback. Do you know who they are?
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The same quarterback was part of both pairs, but this is a different quarterback than from question 1.
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- Two of the men in the top ten in career receiving yards can credit the same quarterback account for more of their yards than any other passer. Can you name that quarterback?
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The receivers won a Super Bowl ring, but the quarterback never did.
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- Can you name the receiver who gained over 10,000 yards in his career, but the quarterback from whom he gained the most yards was… Quincy Carter?
- Among the top twenty-five leaders in career receiving yards, can you guess which player was the only one to fail to catch at least 20% of his yards from a single quarterback?
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Andre Rison,
Harold Jackson,
Joey Galloway,
Keyshawn Johnson,
Marvin Harrison,
Peyton Manning,
Reggie Wayne
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