Joel Stave: QB · Wisconsin · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Joel Stave
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches at Wisconsin: Gary Andersen and Paul Chryst. One game to point at: 322 passing yards and 4 rushing yards against Purdue — Week 7, 2015.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
31.7% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 11.1% conversion-per-dropback — 61.5% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
1 of the team's 26 inside-the-5 carries (3.8%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-35vs No. 3 Alabama | 26/39 | 228 | 2 | 1 | 5.8 | 76.0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 58-0vs Miami (OH) | 19/30 | 236 | 3 | 1 | 7.9 | 72.4 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 28-3vs Troy | 13/17 | 202 | 1 | 0 | 11.9 | 97.5 | |
| Wk 4 | W 28-0vs Hawai'i | 14/23 | 164 | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | 58.2 | |
| Wk 5 | L 6-10vs Iowa | 21/38 | 234 | 0 | 2 | 6.2 | 10.4 | |
| Wk 6 | W 23-21@ Nebraska | 24/50 | 322 | 1 | 0 | 6.4 | 71.2 | Season-high 322 yds |
| Wk 7 | W 24-7vs Purdue | 30/39 | 322 | 0 | 1 | 8.3 | 74.9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 24-13@ Illinois | 3/7 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 48.9 | |
| Wk 9 | W 48-10vs Rutgers | 13/25 | 217 | 1 | 2 | 8.7 | 69.6 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-24@ Maryland | 15/24 | 188 | 1 | 1 | 7.8 | 54.2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 7-13vs No. 20 Northwestern | 20/34 | 229 | 0 | 2 | 6.7 | 14.5 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-21@ Minnesota | 9/17 | 79 | 0 | 1 | 4.6 | 23.4 | |
 Bowl | W 23-21vs USC | 18/27 | 217 | 1 | 0 | 8.0 | 91.4 | |
| Total | 225/370 | 2687 | 11 | 11 | 7.3 | — |
Week 6 · 2015
W 23-21
at Nebraska
322 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 71.2
A close one, won by 2 on the road.
With D. Meyer — 38.5 yards per punt · 6 punts · 60 long · A. Erickson — 7 rec · 113 yds
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 364 passing plays (220 completions) against the box score's 370 attempts (225 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
5.9196 of 198 QBsSack rate
5.4%81 of 198 QBsRarely sacked (81 of 198 QBs) and still 96 of 198 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 60.8% completion on 370 attempts · 38 deep completions averaging 25.9 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2015 baseline
No situation moves him more than 18 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 229 | 0.9 | 8.1 | 1.1 |
| Road4g | 160 | 0.5 | 6.5 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 241 | 1.1 | 7.7 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 152 | 0.4 | 7.0 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Paul Chryst
Pass share
45.2%
417 pass / 505 run
Plays / game
70.9
13 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2015
370 pass attempts and 33 carries in 13 games, fewer passes and runs a game than most FBS quarterbacks who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Wisconsin, 4,037 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2011–2015
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Bret Bielema, Gary Andersen, and Paul Chryst. Multi-era developmental context.
