{"id":628,"date":"2006-08-12T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-12T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T19:40:34","slug":"playing-the-ratings-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/08\/12\/playing-the-ratings-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Ratings Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy The Sporting News, but I never understand why they are so afraid to give some honest-to-goodness ratings.  Take the August 11, 2006 issue as an example of ratings that just do not matter, or maybe just do not make sense.  On page 50 of the Inside the AFC quarterbacks unit analysis, the Jets received the lowest rating of C-.  The Jets did co-share honors with the Bill and Browns, but that is not really the point.  The description of the Jet\u2019s QB situation follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you have four QBs competing for the starting job, you don\u2019t have a quarterback.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fair enough, but why not rate the Jets as F or D?  Seriously, if the author thinks it is that bad, why not have the ratings reflect accordingly?  The Sporting News always pulls the punches when it comes to rating.  I just do not get it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy The Sporting News, but I never understand why they are so afraid to give some honest-to-goodness ratings. Take the August 11, 2006 issue as an example of ratings that just do not matter, or maybe just do not make sense. On page 50 of the Inside the AFC quarterbacks unit analysis, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/08\/12\/playing-the-ratings-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing the Ratings Game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}