Sunday, December 27, 2020

Stats Sunday

This is the last Sunday of the year and as 2020 ends I've decide to start something new.  From time to time on this blog I will write a post that features statistics in some way.  I was thinking about publishing them on Saturdays and calling it Staturday but I decided instead to call it Stats Sunday. It won't be every Sunday. But when I have a stats based post I will try to publish it on a Sunday.  

The Bears beat Jacksonville today to stay alive in the Playoff picture. gula The game was Mitchell Trubisky's 49th start during the regular season. It was his 29th win in 49 starts for a winning percentage of .592.  This got me to thinking.  



This blog began over 11 years ago on December 12 2009. Since then the Bears have played 177 regular season games. They have won 82 of these games and lost 95 for a winning percentage of .462. During that time, the Bears have started 12 different quarterbacks and only one has a better winning percentage in games they started than Trubisky. This is the forgettable Todd Collins who won his only game as a starter for the Bears but was benched in the 3rd quarter in favor of Caleb Hanie. While Collins illustrates that one's winning percentage as a starter is not always indicative of performance,  when related to a larger body of work than a handful of games there is certainly relevance to be gleaned.

PlayerYear(s) StartedWinsLossesPercentage
Todd Collins2010101.000
Mitchell Trubisky2017-20202920.592
Josh McCown2011.201333.500
Jay Cutler2009-20164446.489
Nick Foles202025.286
Mike Glennon201713.250
Brian Hoyer201614.200
Matt Barkley201615.167
Jason Campbell201201.000
Chase Daniel2018,201902.000
Jimmy Clausen2014,201502.000
Caleb Hanie201104.000


Most Starts:  Jay Cutler (90)
Most Wins: Jay Cutler (44)
Most Losses: Jay Cutler (46)

Jay Cutler doing his Jim from the Office impression.
Best Winning Percentage: Todd Collins 1.000
Best Winning Percentage (5 or more starts) : Mitchell Trubisky .592
Worst Winning Percentage. Caleb Hanie* .000 
Worst Winning Percentage (5 or more starts): Matt Baarkley  .167

* 4 QBs have a .000 winning percentage during this time.  Hanie gets the distinction of worst because he had more starts than any of the other 3.


Statistics are interesting in that they can tell you a lot and tell you nothing at all at the very same time. I'm not sure what kind of meaning can be extrapolated from the above chart, but  it was kind of fun and a more than a little depressing looking back at a decade of Bears starting quarterbacks.

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