The title of this article is a lie. Quarterback Wins is indeed a stat. It is, however, a bad stat.
Quarterback Wins is a simple stat to calculate: if the quarterback’s team wins the football game, that counts as a quarterback win. If the quarterback’s team loses the game, then that’s not a quarterback win, because a loss is not a win.
Now that we got the mechanics behind quarterback wins, let’s talk about it.
Quarterback Wins is often used to present a quarterback as being successful. It makes sense, right? The goal of football is to win, and if your quarterback has a lot of wins, then your team has a lot of wins.