Best team in Chiefs history?
 

Simple Rating System (SRS) is a calculation determining how good a team is, using (1) margin of victory and (2) strength of schedule. A margin of 5/game with an SOS of -0.5 results in an SRS of 4.5.


The Chiefs right now hold the #1 SRS and it's not even close: 12.3, Rams 9.5, Saints 8.3, Pitt 7.5. Chiefs have finished with the #1 SRS in their Leafue only ONE TIME in 59 years. When was it?


(Note: 1969-1969 we had 10 AFL teams, 1970-1995 about 26 post merger, and 1995-on 32 teams)

‘69 team hoisted the Lombardi.

1993ROFL

69 team until further notice

Hank Stram always said the '71 team was better than the '69 team.
Just didn't come through on Christmas day...:(

this year

It may well be. We are playing about an avg SOS so we are almost 2 TD better than the avg team. That's insane.


Our sole League best team was only 8.4 SRS. (We had a couple other teams higher than that but none who were best in the League)

2018

The 1969 team was a wild card team if I remember right.

I'm going 1966. They were the top team in the AFL that year.

The answer:

i want to know what len dawson thinks of this years team, that's what i wanna know :thumb:

1969 team was Wild Card because Stram sat Dawson in the regular season finale against Oakland to keep him healthy for the playoffs.

I'm sure we will get to hear it when they are interviewing the **** out of him next week after his single season TD record goes down

Yes!!!!

Has to be one if these...

1966
1968
1969
1971
1993
1997
2003

This

2018 will reveal itself in time. For now I'd make the case for the 1971 team.

If we beat Rams in 2 weeks, it'll prob seal us as the top SRS for the year. Sagarin had us at about 1 TD better than the avg team, so he's much lower, but still we should do something we almost never do if we win that one

1969

Win another Super Bowl and then we’ll talk.

Literally nobody voted for the correct answer. LMAO

I'm not down with the criteria on this one.

got a soft spot for 97. had we beaten Denver as we should have, i think we go all the way.

Yep. Now, that's assuming that we kept Gannon in as QB for the remainder of the season. Chiefs had already beaten Pittsburgh and there's no doubt that we would destroy Green Bay. Our defense would have killed them. In fact, that defense was so special, I would take one half of its talent and total production and trade every f****** player we currently have on defense to get that kind of production today.

1971

How could that team not be listed.

Because the OP is looking at SRS values.

That being said, it appears to me that the 1968 team is the correct answer.

https://www.pro-football-reference.c.../kan/index.htm

According to PFR's SRS system, that year is actually NINTH.

97 should have won the SB. Probably would have if Gannon remained the starter.

Nope. The idea that Gannon was better than Grbac was a myth. The defense carried that team anyway, regardless of who played QB.

How was he not better? Grbac may have had better stats, but Gannon moved the ball way more effectively.

They were nearly identical in every category. The team simply wasn't any different with either guy.

until the final shitshow final drive where he completed like 3 2-yard passes in a row, Grbac actually performed pretty well in the loss to Denver.

WRONG-WRONG-WRONG-WRONG-WRONG-WROOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNG.


I don't give a **** about stats in this case. Grbac was ****ing ASS that year and when Rich took over, the ride began. And what a ****ing ride it was. Rich had mojo and more importantly, he had that team believing that they could take ANYONE who dared cross their path.
That defense, Gannon, and Marcus Allen were a ****ing MACHINE.

I already stated 2003 was the year we were best in the NFL.

Guess it would be the 68 or 69 Chiefs?

Such a different era than when we won the Superbowl. Twice the number of teams and the game has gotten much more complex. The chiefs just happened to be one of the first teams to be good back then. We were lucky to have good timing.

This team would beat that one like a drum.

Except the "ride" never happened. They were the SAME team with Grbac that they were with Gannon. Anybody that actually watched the games and wasn't suffering from "anybody but Grbac" syndrome could see it.

I'm confused.

The thread title says "best team in Chiefs history" and your post says "the answer".

Is it team history or NFL history or what?

Because the best SRS in team history was 1968.

Oh I see it now. The thread title and the body of the post don't match. Bait and switch! :D

In all seriousness, you accidentally asked two questions.

Best team in Chiefs history, according to SRS, is 1968.

Only time the Chiefs led the league in SRS? 2003.

Maybe but if the the 69 or 70 chiefs had the same training diet coaching etc as players today who knows. Vice versa bring todays kid back to that time. This is why you cant compare but as far as mental toughness the teams of old blows them away.

Were you in a coma that season?

Nope, I actually attended two games, one with Grbac and one with Gannon. But let's just leave this alone anyway, this argument destroyed the KC Star board in 1999/2000. :D

Yeah, you don't get it.

Best team = best team in the sport. It was harder to rack up a high SRS number in a league with more parity, so it's harder to be 2003 KC than 1969 KC.

2093? Is Mahomes still playing? ;)

And yes, I admitted fully that I was mislead by the incongruence between your thread title and the body of your post.

Seriously though, I totally misunderstood the purpose of your post. Your explanation clears it up. Thanks.

Don't remind me.

Lenny the Cool will be OK with it, he's a genuine good guy and a realist. George Brett may have a different view when one of his records falls, however. :)

I never cared for Gannon even less now . I went to ever game that season and the playoff game against Denver , no way was grbac the better QB . Hell he left here and went to the ravens and quit on them, that was the type of guy he was .Gannon would have taken us all the way that year, Gannon was way stronger mentally than grbac

You are going to be fighting too much captain hindsight on this one. I agree with you and have fought the Grbac/Gannon myth around here for years.

Thank you, good sir!

Just to be clear, I never said Grbac was better.

I said it didn't matter who the QB was on that team. And that's true to this day.

03 better than SBIV winner? Don't think so.
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HOF vs above average
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03 bestest in history!!!
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03 Gonzo may have been best player on team
A TE is your best player
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Otis Taylor
Defense
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69 wilson
Ret game
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The best oline led to zero SBs.

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RB 03

Strams chiefs could win anytime they took the field and I felt they would. I hate to admit this but I think 03 was a bit smoke and mirrors. Strams chiefs physically dominated AND outschemed teams

Forgot to mention that those old teams were also half the size and half as fast as what we have now. Athletes in general are better in every sport. Mostly because of the $$$.

Which means to compare you have to see how a team was in relation to its peers not compared across eras. And sos may be a good stat but not end all. More teams = more bad teams.

2018>>>2003

Were you a Grbacker or a Grbasher? :Poke: :D

Other than this year, maybe 1995 or 1997.

So lenny smoked then along with just about everyone else then.

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My DR smoked while examining me back then.