Where does Baker Mayfield rank all-time among the Cleveland Browns quarterbacks?
By Chad Porto
Winning Percentage (Minimum 50 starts)
- Otto Graham – (81%)
- Frank Ryan – (71.42%)
- Bill Nelsen – (68%)
- Milt Plum – (67.34%)
- Brian Sipe – (50.89%)
- Bernie Kosar – (50.96%)
- Baker Mayfield – (49.12%)
- Mike Phipps – (48.97%)
- Tim Couch – (37.288%)
- Vinny Testaverde – (51.16%)
- Derek Anderson – (47.05%)
Now I debated putting this on the list, as a winning percentage really only measures a team’s performance, not a quarterback’s. This isn’t just in football either, as Major League Baseball has gotten away from judging players based on their wins and losses as well.
Both baseball and football are very team-oriented sports and conflating an entire team’s performance to a single player is a passe way of judging things. The same goes for goalies in hockey. The only team sport that thrives with individual stats like “winning percentage” is basketball, as one player can actually carry an entire team to a championship.
That’s not true in baseball or football. It’s a little true in hockey, usually with an elite goalie. Yet, even with an elite goalie, he can’t score goals (usually). So football is far more of a team sport than say basketball where a winning percentage for a player is more of a leading stat, rather than a misleading one.