By: Ryan Moreland (@ryanmoreland)
How JTR Works
JTR ranks players by comparison to the league average using unbiased stats. By unbiased stats, we mean stats that don’t show a preference for one style of play over another. For example, we expect a quarterback in an air raid system to throw the ball more often than a quarterback in a multiple set. So comparing the two based on completions wouldn’t be fair. Once we determine stats that we believe to be unbiased, we create a league average. Outperforming the league average earns a player positive points. Stats that fall below the league average will earn a player negative points. Points for each stat are calculated and combined with a base rating given to each player. The combination results in a player’s JTR metric score. 0 is the worst possible score and 100 is the best possible score.
For QBs, the stats we chose to use are completion percentage, yards per attempt, touchdown percentage, interception percentage, passing yards per game, and unique rushing index. The rushing index excludes sacks from a quarterback’s rush totals to get a more accurate sense of them as a runner. Also, QBs cannot take negative points from the rushing index (outside of fumbles). This is because a running ability for a quarterback is a plus, but not a requirement.
JTR is not a predictive metric. It cannot tell the future. It can only measure what a player has done up to that point.
JTR Leaderboard
| Rank (Last Week) | Player | Team | JTR Score (Change) |
| 1 (1) | Jaylen Tyree | Ohio State | 95.692 (-1.959) |
| 2 (4) | Kevin Price | North Carolina | 94.121 (+7.133) |
| 3 (2) | Himoteo Del Este | Oklahoma | 91.688 (+0.346) |
| 4 (3) | Jack Schmidt | Florida | 89.804 (+2.442) |
| 5 (6) | Jay Duke | Auburn | 89.055 (+7.404) |
| 6 (7) | Zeus Claydon | Florida State | 80.763 (-0.433) |
| 7 (5) | Saint Major | Virginia Tech | 80.162 (-1.896) |
| 8 (9) | Jamesyn Golde | USC | 78.612 (+0.093) |
| 9 (10) | Cole Mantell | Michigan State | 77.024 (+1.957) |
| 10 (16) | JK Matthews | Penn State | 74.973 (+5.071) |
| 11 (11) | Sean Keohane | LSU | 73.954 (-0.082) |
| 12 (15) | Johnny Ray Davis | Alabama | 72.416 (+2.167) |
| 13 (13) | Gunner Rice | West Virginia | 72.178 (+1.502) |
| 14 (8) | Owen Dart | Texas A&M | 71.889 (-7.042) |
| 15 (12) | TJ Cunnington | Kentucky | 71.038 (-0.031) |
| 16 (N/A) | Bo Jones | Texas | 69.601 (N/A) |
| 17 (17) | Leisa Pink | Miami | 69.490 (+1.248) |
| 18 (21) | Sky Sanders | Colorado | 69.376 (+10.044) |
| 19 (14) | Windham Carter | Michigan | 69.448 (-2.098) |
| 20 (18) | Noir Royal | Notre Dame | 67.271 (+0.176) |
| 21 (19) | Sterling Verdugo | Tennessee | 61.101 (-0.862) |
| 22 (22) | Brandon Petty | Georgia | 57.987 (+2.567) |
| 23 (20) | Tavon Moss | Clemson | 57.073 (-3.077) |
| 24 (23) | Claude DuBois | Oregon | 52.691 (+2.730) |
Findings
Ohio State’s Jalen Tyree will claim the top spot for the third straight week. However, this is the first week this season that Oklahoma’s Himoteo Del Este is not right behind him. Del Este fell to 3rd despite improving his score. That was thanks to a great performance by North Carolina QB Kevin Price this week.
Despite Price’s impressive jump in score, he was not the week’s best score improver. That honor belongs to Colorado’s Sky Sanders. Sanders threw for 457 yards and four touchdowns this week. The four scores tie Sander’s personal record for passing TDs in a game. That performance helped earn his team a major conference victory and a 10-point boost to his JTR score. Other notable improvers include Auburn’s Jay Duke and Kevin Price.
Sanders did move up three spots this week, but that wasn’t enough to earn him the biggest rank improvement. Penn State’s JK Matthews jumped from 16th to 10th this week. Matthews had 426 passing yards and 3 touchdowns against Oregon, but his rushing really stands out. He had only 4 carries but turned them into 63 yards. That performance got his team the win and moved him into the top ten on the leaderboard. Others who jumped up the leaderboard include Alabama’s Johnny Ray Davis (3 spots) and Sanders (3 spots).
We are at the halfway point of the season, which means there is still plenty of time to see massive changes to the JTR Leaderboard. Good luck to all the QBs in the CFSL.
