Year of the QBs + Random Useless Observations

With not many numbers to crunch and not a lot of ideas on how to use the numbers to tell a story, I will just write a lot of little known, even less important random facts about the season so far.

Firstly, I'd like to reiterate ... THIS HAS BEEN THE YEAR OF THE QBs.

Look at these stats:
TOP 9 scorers thus far are all QBs!
Peyton Manning -- 116
Aaron Rodgers -- 98
Drew Brees -- 94
Joe Flacco -- 92
Philip Rivers -- 90
Matt Schaub -- 89
Eli Manning -- 85
Ben Roethlisberger -- 84
Brett Favre -- 80
Tied with Favre is finally a player who isnt a QB (Chris Johnson with 80 points)
Just to drive home the point further ... after Chris Johnson, the next 2 are ALSO QBS!!!!!
Jay Cutler and David Gerrard!
Phew! This did not happen last year. Not even close! It was the RBs who ruled the game last year.

Imagine this, the highest score through the first 4 weeks by a player who is NOT a QB: Chris Johnson with 80 a 36 point differential from Manning.

And the fact that the best WR has only scored 68 points in the first 4 weeks just illustrates that it's not a QB-WR combinations thats been working this year. The throws have gone all around. A lot of different WRs have done OK but it's been QBs who have had an awesome 4 weeks!
Considering average though, the best WR is DeSean Jackson ... with 60 points in 3 weeks, he has scored 20 a week on an average! Kudos!

Best one week performances by position
QB -- 53 points -- week 1 -- Drew Brees -- Devashree
RB -- 56 points -- week 2 -- Chris Johnson -- Devashree
WR -- 31 points -- week 2 -- Andre Johnson -- Vishal
TE -- 29 points -- week 2 -- Dallas Clark -- Murtaza
DE -- 39 points -- week 4 -- San Francisco -- Shilpi/Jimit
K -- 14 points -- week 2 -- Nate Kaeding -- Darshini
week 3 -- Stephen Gostkowski -- Shilpi/Jimit
week 4 -- Robbie Gould -- Meghna


Stupid stat that only I can come up with! :)
Week 1 Highest Scorer -- Darshini -- Current Record 1-3
Week 2 Highest Scorer -- Devashree -- Current Record 2-2
Week 4 Highest Scorer -- Shilpi/Jimit -- Current Record 3-1
Week 3 Highest Scorer -- Murtaza -- Current Record 4-0

Another stupid stat that only I could come up with:
Current weekly average per team: 84.3
Total number of scores that are above average: 24
Total number of scores that are below average: 24
What does that mean? :) Anyone? It means that our mean and median are the same or about the same.

Another very very important observation:
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The average may be 84 but to make sure that you win, try and get a score of 90 or higher.
And here is the reason why:
Win - Loss of teams scoring above 100: 9 - 1 (90%)
Win - Loss of teams scoring between 90 and 99: 9 - 2 (81%)
Win - Loss of teams scoring between 80 and 89: 1 - 4 (20%)
Such a sharp drop as soon as you score less than 90! So try and score in the nineties this season to have a great shot at winning.

In case you are wondering, that one player so far who has scored in the 3 digits and still lost -- Shirin. She scored 100 in week 2 and still lost!

Hmmm ... that's it! I know it was really random ... but there are some stats that only make sense after we are doing with 8 or 9 weeks so I cannot do them this early. There weren't any innovative ideas this week either. SO THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW AND ASK ME FOR IT!

Like I said last week, here is the updated standings of head to head matchups now including week 4 as well.
TEAM -- Wins-Losses-Tied
ShilpiJimit--33 11 0
Murtaza------31 13 0
Saumil-------27 16 1
Prashant-----24 20 0
Meghna-------21 21 2
Devashree----21 23 0
Shirin-------20 23 1
Darshini-----20 23 1
Vishal-------20 24 0
Niral--------18 25 1
Valmik-------17 26 1
Ali----------08 35 1


Definitely read Niral's article this week. It should be coming out today as well. Something tells me it's going to be GREAT! All the best!

Cheers,
Murtaza