Tom Brady is generally considered the best quarterback in NFL history. His record for most career passing yards is one of the many impressive records he has. To achieve this, he consistently maintained a high passing yards total per year, had the most passes attempted and completed, avoided season-impacting injuries, and had a long career overall.
Records are made to be broken.
The next quarterback to break this record might already be playing the game. But who? And when?
This presentation takes us on a data exploration and visualization journey to show how Tom Brady became such a dominant force in the NFL. We then identify which current quarterbacks have the greatest chance at challenging this record and when it might occur.
We cover the entire analytic workflow: a JSL script that scrapes data from a website; a data clean-up workflow that prepares the data for analysis; data exploration and visualization; and finally, a published JMP Live report that will be updated throughout the season.
