Who throws the best deep ball in the Big Ten? And who’s mastered the short pass?
Well, we made our educated guesses in the preseason. But with the season almost over -- and thanks to some nifty analytics software -- we decided to crunch the numbers and see what the data said.
We looked at each player’s QBR from each part of the field, from deep passes (21 yards in the air and over) to intermediate passes (11-20 yards in the air) to short passes (10 yards and under). Different quarterbacks were obviously better in different areas, so we compared each chart and came up with the answers based on QBR.