In the aftermath of Week 9, it seems as though the public perception of the league’s MVP has shifted away from Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson and toward the direction of Kansas City‘s Patrick Mahomes and Green Bay‘s Aaron Rodgers.
There is also some MVP talk surrounding Minnesota‘s Dalvin Cook and New Orleans‘ Alvin Kamara, but we think a lot would have to happen in the final weeks for this to come to fruition.
As long as Wilson remains on track to throw 50 touchdowns and Rodgers and Mahomes outplay their MVP campaigns of 2011 and 2018, respectively, we still believe it’s a quarterback’s award.
So, how exactly did last week’s play shake out our estimated odds?
Before we get to the rankings, here is a short overview of the methodology:
We trained a model to predict the winner of the MVP award at the conclusion of the regular season. The model is based on three regular-season parameters:
- The number of wins (and how that ranks across the league)
Rank in the division
Expected points added per play (and how that ranks across the league)
Since the model works with regular-season stats in hindsight, we need to simulate the remaining games of the season in order to feed the model. We invoke our weekly win-total simulations as well as a Bayesian Updating method to simulate each quarterback’s EPA per play in 2020.
Using these updated beliefs, we can simulate the EPA per play for the remainder of the season for each quarterback.
The number of wins and whether a QB wins his division is obtained from our weekly win-total simulations.
DEFENSE ADJUSTMENTS
As we do every week, we will go through the strength of defenses first, explaining how we adjust for each defense before identifying the quarterbacks who played the most difficult schedule (and received the highest positive adjustments).
The recorded strength of each defense leads to the following adjustments for quarterbacks (a positive adjustment means a difficult schedule so far; a negative adjustment means an easy schedule).
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