All of the data has been processed; I only have some more military service years to go through.
Luckman and Baugh in virtual dead heat, but as soon as the career setting is pushed up at all, Baugh goes ahead...so unless you are going with pure efficiency, Baugh has the advantage due to throwing more passes over more years.
I've been saying for almost a month - since I first started with the Hall of Fame monitor - that Danowski should be in the Hall of Fame and Thompson also has a pretty strong case.
After Isbell, this list gets really interesting; I had no idea how these guys would stack up after #7.
#8 Glenn Presnell was the Lions closest thing to a quarterback with their heavy run game in the 30s; he was the guy with the most passing responsibility during the Dutch Clark years...better on the accolades and championships, but his era rating and peak score are decent too.
#9 Ace Parker is a Hall of Famer....very promising career cut short by WWII service.
#10 Harry Newman is another guy whose career was cut short. He was an absolute stud in 1933, one of the best QBs the league had seen to date. Lost a heartbreaker in the title game. The next year, he was knocked out with a spinal injury and Danowski replaced him and won the job permanently. Newman tried to start his own football team, and it didn't go well.
#11 Paul Christman is a bit supririsng to me; I had seen him as a very limited QB who got lucky to be along for the ride for the 1947 (champ) and 1948 (runner up) Cardinals. But his era and peak scores show more of an average QB, so overall, a very solid player.
#12 Frank Filchock is the guy I posted about before...suspended for a few years for allegedly taking a bribe to throw the 1946 championship game. Also put together a solid career a backup/role player to Baugh in Washington.
#13/#14. Irv Comp and Bernie Masterson are your modern "system quarterbacks" in the mold of Joe Flacco. Not very good but can be steady when needed. Comp won a championship with the Packers while Masterson was a part of numerous title contenders during the 30s.
#27. Dutch Clark falls below the 0 line...meaning he's not a quarterback, after all. The 0 line is supposed to show that you either add negative value as a quarterback, or, in the context of the older times, you're not actually a real
passing quarterback.
Might post some other stuff tomorrow...the 1920-49 totals are making me think about whether or not I'm overvaluing the 1920s guys. I wouldn't say it's extreme, but it might require some minor changes in calculating the 1920s scores...not suprising it would need to be recalibrated, since it's a different system using the only available passing performance measure: TD passes. I think I might just try to bring those numbers closer to the historical average 50% mark to hedge my bets. Dunn and Herber are virtually deadlocked; I don't know if that's right. I think Dunn did dominate his era like Herber, but with Dunn there's some degree of speculation. I think that should put some distance between Herber and Dunn.
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