Overall Quarterback Rankings after Week Eight

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

Net Points

per play

Wins

Produced

Wins Produced

per 100 plays

NFL’s QB

Rating

Tom Brady

1

1

2,412

287

5

1401

4.88

116.3

3.1

0.405

1.070

136.2

Peyton Manning

2

3

1,795

246

3

967

3.93

81.9

2.2

0.333

0.880

102.9

Tony Romo

3

5

1,982

264

11

860

3.26

70.7

1.8

0.268

0.693

95.6

Jeff Garcia

4

7

1,793

263

5

854

3.25

72.3

1.9

0.275

0.723

95.4

Derek Anderson

5

6

1,698

233

9

729

3.13

60.4

1.6

0.259

0.671

95.5

David Garrard

6

2

1,202

194

1

590

3.04

51.2

1.4

0.264

0.700

102.9

Brett Favre

7

10

1,965

300

8

825

2.75

69.9

1.8

0.233

0.607

92.5

Carson Palmer

8

11

1,860

273

10

741

2.71

62.0

1.6

0.227

0.586

90.7

Jay Cutler

9

16

1,694

244

10

662

2.71

54.8

1.4

0.225

0.578

86.0

Ben Roethlisberger

10

4

1,500

221

8

597

2.70

49.8

1.3

0.225

0.582

102.2

Donovan McNabb

11

12

1,723

286

4

745

2.60

64.6

1.7

0.226

0.594

90.6

Kurt Warner

12

8

853

121

6

310

2.56

25.0

0.6

0.207

0.527

95.2

Matt Hasselbeck

13

14

1,639

260

7

649

2.50

55.4

1.4

0.213

0.554

88.7

Matt Schaub

14

17

1,602

241

10

579

2.40

48.0

1.2

0.199

0.510

85.0

Philip Rivers

15

13

1,370

214

10

428

2.00

35.3

0.9

0.165

0.417

90.3

Jon Kitna

16

9

1,615

271

9

532

1.96

45.3

1.2

0.167

0.429

93.4

Trent Green

17

27

966

155

7

291

1.88

24.5

0.6

0.158

0.399

72.6

Joey Harrington

18

18

1,295

243

4

446

1.84

40.0

1.0

0.165

0.431

80.9

Jason Campbell

19

24

1,416

237

10

405

1.71

33.9

0.9

0.143

0.360

77.2

Chad Pennington

20

15

1,238

222

7

362

1.63

31.8

0.8

0.143

0.366

87.5

Damon Huard

21

20

1,350

242

8

384

1.59

33.5

0.9

0.138

0.353

79.8

Drew Brees

22

22

1,733

301

12

470

1.56

40.2

1.0

0.134

0.337

78.6

Brian Griese

23

25

1,334

223

11

335

1.50

28.1

0.7

0.126

0.312

76.2

Eli Manning

24

21

1,573

271

12

400

1.48

33.8

0.8

0.125

0.310

79.5

Kyle Boller

25

23

654

129

3

177

1.37

16.0

0.4

0.124

0.320

78.4

Steve McNair

26

19

911

170

6

221

1.30

19.0

0.5

0.112

0.281

80.2

Matt Leinart

27

33

666

127

4

165

1.30

14.8

0.4

0.117

0.296

61.9

Trent Edwards

28

29

726

134

5

174

1.30

15.4

0.4

0.115

0.287

69.9

Daunte Culpepper

29

26

771

154

6

129

0.84

11.6

0.3

0.075

0.182

73.3

Marc Bulger

30

32

1,192

231

11

169

0.73

14.7

0.3

0.064

0.147

64.3

Tarvaris Jackson

31

34

573

114

5

81

0.71

7.5

0.2

0.065

0.154

48.7

Cleo Lemon

32

28

764

158

6

110

0.70

10.2

0.2

0.065

0.154

70.0

Alex Smith

33

30

647

151

3

104

0.69

10.6

0.3

0.070

0.178

68.1

Vince Young

34

31

847

174

7

115

0.66

10.8

0.3

0.062

0.146

66.0