YAC

[jjjayb]

Cassel is what he is. He's an average QB. You shouldn't have to tweak numbers to make him look better.

Originally Posted by jAZ

Mostly YAC.

It started with looking at Cassel's QB rating, and realizing that a big part of the formula for QB Rating is based upon a QB's yards per attempt. It occured to me how worthless that portion of the formula can be (at least to an extent) given that a big portion of a QB's yardage number is generated by YAC. In fact, certain offensive systems are designed to be productive based largely on YAC. If the WR's are ineffecitve at generating YAC, it can have a substantial impact on the QB rating.

Cassel circa 2008 benefied from 2100 YAC at NE. Only 1100 with KC.

Same QB, different weapons.

Those 1000 yards of YAC difference are worth almost 10 points of difference in Cassel's QB rating (69.9 vs 78.4).

If Bowe plays all 4 games and somehow our WR's get just the YAC output we had in 2007 or 2008 (about 300 more yards), Cassel's QB rating goes up to about the same level.

Part of the problem with our YAC is that Bowe missed games and he's a normally a major producer. But that's only 25% decline, his was over 50%.