I posted about a comparison of Brady's and Montana's playoff success level before.
I just updated it to include this year.
The comparison consists of this: assign a score representing how far into the playoffs each takes his team. Average that over the number of years each was the starting QB.
The scoring system consists of assigning a number indicating how many games your team could potentially have won when they exited the playoffs.
For example, win SB -> score = 0, i.e., there are no games left you could have won.
Play in SB but lose -> score = 1, i.e., you could have won that final game.
Lose in Conf Champ -> score = 2, i.e, you could have potentially won that game and won the SB.
Using that system, we find that Montana's career avg. is 1.909. That is, his avg. expected performance for any year is to get to, but lose, the conference championship.
Brady's career average through last year is 1.438. He averages half a round deeper into the playoffs than did Montana.
So Brady's had significantly better success, and for many more years, than Montana.
And, despite losing this year's SB, Brady's score actually improved further, to 1.383, while adding yet another year to the string.
There is simply no way to argue that Montana did better for his team than Brady has done for the Pats.
