We still don't know if Tom Brady's NFL career is actually over. And we're a bit unclear how he feels about the New England Patriots. But there's no denying the massive impact Brady left on the franchise over two decades in Foxboro.
How can we quantify that impact? The Athletic's Bob Sturm has a formula. Every year since 2002, Sturm has rolled out his "Super Bowl-era franchise rankings," which objectively rate each franchise's overall success using a pretty basic point system: 11 points for winning the Super Bowl, five points for losing the Super Bowl, three points for reaching a conference championship game and one point for making the playoffs.