How is passer rating figured

In isolation, a passer rating seems like a pretty simple concept; why look at a variety of stats when you could have one, catch-all metric. Passer rating is based on four metrics: completion percentage, yards per passing attempt, touchdown percentage, and interception percentage.

Knowing those individual stats, though, is only the start. In a Slate post, there was a step-by-step explainer, just in case you want to crunch the numbers yourself. Completion percentage: Subtract 30 from the percentage of passes that are thrown for completions, then multiply by. Yards per attempt: Subtract yards per passing attempt by three, then multiply by. Touchdown percentage: Multiply the percentage of touchdown passes per passing attempt by.

Interception percentage: Multiply the percentage of interceptions per passing attempt by. The scores for each category are added together. The NCAA passer rating has an upper limit of 1, The upper limit value results if every pass thrown is a yard touchdown and the lower limit if every pass thrown for a yard loss.

A passer who throws only interceptions will have a rating. Although limited by injuries in , he set two regular season records with a 74 percent completion percentage and an efficiency rating of He opened the season by setting a CFL single-game passing efficiency rating record of Steve Young currently holds the NFL record for the highest career passer rating for any player with at least attempts with a mark of The highest passer rating for a complete season is Also in , rookie Ben Roethlisberger posted a mark of There have been 34 quarterbacks to complete a game with a perfect passer rating of The single-season record belongs to Colt Brennan of Hawaii, who amassed a passer rating of American Football Wiki Explore.

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