What SHOULD QB’s playoff records be?
Unbelievably enough, Philip Rivers is actually dead last here as well, merely reinforcing his status as the metric’s namesake. Much like his regular-season frustrations, he was a .429 playoff record despite playing like a .654 quarterback.
At the other end, Tom Brady’s recent losses still haven’t caused his deserved performance to catch up to his actual W-L. He was obviously due for a correction after winning his first 10 playoff games as a starter (this system considers it 9 straight, since Drew Bledsoe threw more passes in the 2001 AFC title game); during those 9 games, he played like a .625 QB. Since the 2004 Super Bowl, Brady has a .444 record and has played like a .532 QB, so his luck has actually swung the other way in recent seasons.
Meanwhile Ben Roethlisberger, #2 on the list, has a chance to pad his Rivers Index even more this weekend. His opponent, Mark Sanchez, is a budding Rivers Index phenom in his own right. Sanchez sports an .800 record as his team’s leading passer in the playoffs, despite playing like a .618 QB. Ironically, in that sense his career arc could very well follow that of a young Brady.
Manning is among the unluckiest, Brady among the luckiest.
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