Who carried the decade. Every season is scored against its own league with VAL, so a player is measured against the peers he actually faced, never against a different era's scoring environment.
Player of the decade
Norm Van BrocklinBest single season
Johnny Unitas · 1959Evidence
293 player-seasons
QB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1950 (36.3)
QB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1958 (36.6)
QB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (33.8)
QB · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1955 (41.1)
QB · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1959 (53.8)
RB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1951 (29.9)
RB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (24.7)
RB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1952 (33.9)
FB · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (15.7)
RB · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1958 (32.5)
RB · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1950 (24)
CB · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1958 (19)
S · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1952 (12.1)
RB · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1957 (13.6)
QB · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (24.1)
DB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1958 (12.4)
FB · 3 seasons in the decade · best 1958 (22.9)
S · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (12)
TE · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (13.3)
QB · 3 seasons in the decade · best 1951 (25.9)
TE · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (9.8)
WR · 5 seasons in the decade · best 1959 (13.2)
WR · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1950 (12.5)
RB · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1951 (16)
S · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (9.1)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny Unitas | 1959 | 53.8 |
| 2 | Johnny Unitas | 1958 | 46.7 |
| 3 | Johnny Unitas | 1957 | 41.8 |
| 4 | Otto Graham | 1955 | 41.1 |
| 5 | Otto Graham | 1952 | 38.7 |
| 6 | Bobby Layne | 1958 | 36.6 |
| 7 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.
| 1950 |
| 36.3 |
| 8 | Hugh McElhenny | 1952 | 33.9 |
| 9 | Y. A. Tittle | 1953 | 33.8 |
| 10 | Lenny Moore | 1958 | 32.5 |