and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along with

Pro Football Focus Data Sciences and host of the unexpected points

podcast and a man Kevin Cole who has been doing an incredible undertaking

trying to break down the top 50 statistical

quarterbacks of all time and I respect your guts to do this Kevin

because when people see a list you know what happens they don't like the list. There are players out of order on the list from what they think. These are big problems. So I respect what you're doing here. How are you?

I'm good. Well, I mean, I can deflect some blame from the fact that I'm saying this is a statistical

list, not necessarily my list, although I think what the exercise has helped provide to me and this is one of the reasons, you know, me and the rest of the nerds out there in the world do rely upon statistics so much is that you talk about this being such a big undertaking well by having some data that we can

era adjust we have efficiency numbers we have some volume numbers make some adjustments based upon that

throw in some peak versus longevity adjustments

what we can do, throw in some playoffs, and it can just spit out a list for me, not having

to hem and ha and figure out who's who, and then you look over the list and you say the top 25

names that are on the list of all the eligible players for the Hall of Fame all there's only

one who's in the top 25 who is not in the Hall of Fame.

They're only 27 quarterbacks in the Hall of Fame right now of the modern era so you know not a

bad way of doing things. Yeah no I like it I mean I love the which is why you're here, and I want to talk about a couple of the Vikings who are on this list, and also just kind of talk about the methodology here, because I think when we try to compare cross eras it can be pretty tricky.

I mean in part the one that always gets me and you put out you put out the numbers 50 through 11 on your Twitter and

you just in your most recent episode counted down 10 through number six so we

won't ruin and spoil your top five we can ruin it if you want.

I'm gonna do it today.

So I don't see anyone to get to this before

before that comes out.

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