NFL QB EPA/Play Leaderboards: 1977–2025

Welcome back to the Gridiron Deep Dive everybody, where today, I’m going to be expanding EPA/Play leaderboards for QBs back to 1977.Welcome to the Gridiron Deep Dive, where I take advanced analytics into places they don’t belong.For those who don’t know, Expected Points Added (EPA) at the player level measures all expected points added to his team’s score, on plays where a given player either touched the football or was targeted for a pass. Expected points is a measure of how many points an offence is expected to score given their situation, taking into account factors like down and distance, time remaining on the clock, and etcetera.At the end of a game or season, this total Expected Points Added (EPA) score is often divided by the total number of plays a player was involved in, to produce EPA/Play, or in English, the amount of points this player’s team gained over the league average, per play he was involved in.For instance, if we restrict our players to only QBs, which we will be…

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