It’s hard to pin down Bobby Mitchell’s career. He wasn’t entirely a wide receiver, but he was more than that, too.
Category: Notes
Plus-minus, 1959-1968
Hockey stars of the '60s, updated with plus-minus stats.
Hoops update: D. Wade, Dirk (and LeBron)
The 2018-19 NBA season was marked by the retirement of two sure-fire Hall of Famers, and the decision of one of the greatest of them all to join a middling team in L.A. German-born Dirk Nowitzki was a quiet, unusual sort of revolutionary. He was the first truly effective European star; the first to earn …
Notes: Old-time hockey
I found an error in my formula that was affecting the defensive ratings for hockey players before 1930. I've updated their pages to show the correct numbers.
Notes: A farewell to Gronk
Is he really going? Rob Gronkowski’s career lasted only nine years, but he seems to have been with us forever. He cut across the NFL like a hard-partying red-white-and-blue comet; a Pat Patriot come to life, leaving a trail of flattened defenders in his wake.
Notes: Active quarterbacks beyond Brady
This week’s Tom Brady update got me wondering about about how some of his contemporaries are doing. I generally don’t want to post active players’ stats; when I started doing this 10 years ago, I tracked a few guys who were still playing, but there were some wild swings in value as their careers wound down, and I decided it was better to wait until they were finished.
Tom Brady watch
After a big bump in 2017, Tom Brady inched up a tenth of a point in 2018. Following the 2019 Super Bowl, he sits at 30.32, still 0.67 behind Peyton Manning. Has he plateaued? There was just a hint of regression this year, and it may be that after 309 games, time is catching up …
