Overall Quarterback Rankings after Week Fifteen

Quarterbacks Ranked in terms of QB Score per play and the NFL’s QB Rating

QB Score = All Yards – 3*All Plays – 30*All Turnovers

All Yards = Passing Yards + Rushing Yards – Yards Lost from Sacks

All Plays = Passing Attempts + Rushing Attempts + Sacks

All Turnovers = Interceptions + Fumbles Lost

Net Points = Points Created by Yards, Plays, and Turnovers

Wins Produced = Wins Produced by Yards, Plays, and Turnovers

Data taken from Yahoo.com

Historical Average QB Score per Play = 1.85

Historical Average Net Points per Play = 0.159

Historical Average Wins Produced per 100 Plays = 0.406

Quarterback

Rank

QB Score

per play

Rank

NFL’s

QB Rating

All

Yards

All

Plays

All

Turnovers

QB Score

QB Score

per Play

Net

Points

Wins

Produced

Net Points

per play

Wins Produced

per 100 plays

NFL’s QB

Rating

Tom Brady

1

1

4,219

549

9

2,302

4.19

193.0

5.09

0.352

0.928

119.7

Tony Romo

2

4

3,818

510

19

1,718

3.37

142.2

3.69

0.279

0.724

101.0

Brett Favre

3

5

3,825

531

16

1,752

3.30

146.3

3.82

0.276

0.719

97.7

Peyton Manning

4

6

3,516

503

15

1,557

3.10

130.8

3.41

0.260

0.678

95.2

David Garrard

5

3

2,385

372

4

1,149

3.09

98.9

2.61

0.266

0.702

101.6

Jay Cutler

6

10

3,140

461

15

1,307

2.84

109.5

2.84

0.238

0.617

90.8

Jeff Garcia

7

7

2,262

358

6

1,008

2.82

86.6

2.27

0.242

0.635

93.6

Derek Anderson

8

15

3,348

501

16

1,365

2.72

114.9

2.98

0.229

0.595

85.8

Matt Schaub

9

12

2,167

322

12

841

2.61

70.1

1.81

0.218

0.562

87.2

Drew Brees

10

8

3,783

584

18

1,491

2.55

126.1

3.27

0.216

0.560

92.1

Carson Palmer

11

14

3,592

561

18

1,369

2.44

116.2

3.01

0.207

0.536

86.2

Matt Hasselbeck

12

9

3,505

574

14

1,363

2.37

117.0

3.05

0.204

0.531

92.0

Ben Roethlisberger

13

2

3,011

486

14

1,133

2.33

96.7

2.51

0.199

0.515

104.1

Donovan McNabb

14

13

2,723

477

10

992

2.08

86.5

2.25

0.181

0.472

86.8

Kurt Warner

15

11

2,612

393

21

803

2.04

65.1

1.63

0.166

0.416

87.6

Trent Edwards

16

22

1,290

231

5

447

1.94

39.5

1.03

0.171

0.444

75.6

Jon Kitna

17

17

3,458

567

23

1,067

1.88

89.7

2.28

0.158

0.402

84.6

Jason Campbell

18

19

2,775

474

19

783

1.65

66.0

1.66

0.139

0.351

77.6

Tarvaris Jackson

19

30

1,649

279

12

452

1.62

38.2

0.96

0.137

0.344

69.6

Joey Harrington

20

20

2,056

394

8

634

1.61

57.3

1.49

0.145

0.377

77.2

Philip Rivers

21

18

2,706

458

20

732

1.60

61.6

1.54

0.135

0.337

80.0

Brian Griese

22

21

1,717

290

13

457

1.58

38.7

0.97

0.133

0.334

75.6

Chad Pennington

23

16

1,386

266

7

378

1.42

34.1

0.87

0.128

0.329

85.8

Vince Young

24

28

2,466

445

18

591

1.33

51.2

1.28

0.115

0.287

70.1

Eli Manning

25

26

2,844

530

22

594

1.12

51.7

1.27

0.098

0.240

72.6

Cleo Lemon

26

29

1,445

289

9

308

1.07

28.0

0.70

0.097

0.243

69.9

Kyle Boller

27

23

1,673

318

14

299

0.94

26.0

0.63

0.082

0.197

75.2

Kellen Clemens

28

32

1,382

268

11

248

0.93

22.2

0.54

0.083

0.202

59.0

Marc Bulger

29

27

1,981

396

16

313

0.79

28.5

0.68

0.072

0.172

71.4

Damon Huard

30

25

1,749

337

16

258

0.77

22.6

0.53

0.067

0.156

72.6

Rex Grossman

31

31

1,240

264

10

148

0.56

14.2

0.33

0.054

0.126

66.4

Steve McNair

32

24

1,060

226

11

52

0.23

4.7

0.07

0.021

0.032

73.9

Trent Dilfer

33

33

1,009

256

14

-179

-0.70

-13.3

-0.42

-0.052

-0.163

55.1