Week Three Quarterback Rankings

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

QB Rating

Kurt Warner

1

3

258

20

0

198

9.90

16.2

0.812

0.432

2.161

150.0

Donovan McNabb

2

1

383

30

1

263

8.77

21.2

0.705

0.558

1.860

158.3

Tom Brady

3

2

310

31

1

187

6.03

15.1

0.488

0.398

1.283

150.9

Peyton Manning

4

8

270

30

0

180

6.00

15.1

0.502

0.401

1.336

110.3

Joey Harrington

5

9

355

46

0

217

4.72

18.4

0.400

0.489

1.064

110.1

Trent Green

6

18

312

37

1

171

4.62

14.2

0.383

0.372

1.005

89.8

Brett Favre

7

7

364

49

0

217

4.43

18.5

0.377

0.491

1.003

110.3

Jay Cutler

8

17

217

26

1

109

4.19

9.0

0.344

0.234

0.898

96.6

Daunte Culpepper

9

20

107

15

0

62

4.13

5.3

0.354

0.141

0.940

84.8

Tony Romo

10

13

300

38

1

156

4.11

13.0

0.342

0.341

0.897

100.8

Philip Rivers

11

4

290

39

1

143

3.67

12.0

0.307

0.314

0.805

116.2

Carson Palmer

12

23

327

46

2

129

2.80

10.7

0.232

0.275

0.597

75.9

Ben Roethlisberger

13

12

163

23

1

64

2.78

5.1

0.224

0.132

0.575

106.3

Vince Young

14

16

185

27

1

74

2.74

6.2

0.229

0.160

0.593

97.5

Jeff Garcia

15

21

143

26

0

65

2.50

5.8

0.224

0.155

0.595

83.7

Damon Huard

16

14

205

32

1

79

2.47

6.6

0.205

0.170

0.531

100.6

Jon Kitna

17

15

394

57

3

133

2.33

10.6

0.186

0.268

0.470

100.5

Alex Smith

18

26

230

40

1

80

2.00

7.0

0.175

0.181

0.453

65.1

Steve McNair

19

11

190

32

1

64

2.00

5.4

0.168

0.138

0.432

106.7

David Garrard

20

10

192

35

1

57

1.63

4.9

0.140

0.125

0.358

109.2

Derek Anderson

21

28

236

40

2

56

1.40

4.7

0.118

0.116

0.291

57.0

Matt Schaub

22

22

219

37

2

48

1.30

4.0

0.109

0.097

0.263

81.3

Jake Delhomme

23

6

93

22

0

27

1.23

2.7

0.122

0.072

0.325

110.6

Chad Pennington

24

5

114

27

0

33

1.22

3.3

0.122

0.088

0.324

112.7

Matt Hasselbeck

25

19

237

42

2

51

1.21

4.4

0.104

0.107

0.255

88.6

Jason Campbell

26

24

190

40

1

40

1.00

3.7

0.091

0.093

0.231

74.4

Kelly Holcomb

27

25

129

33

0

30

0.91

3.2

0.097

0.085

0.258

68.3

Eli Manning

28

27

218

39

3

11

0.28

0.6

0.016

0.002

0.005

63.7

Trent Edwards

29

30

88

22

1

-8

-0.36

-0.5

-0.021

-0.017

-0.076

43.1

Rex Grossman

30

33

176

36

3

-22

-0.61

-1.9

-0.054

-0.066

-0.182

27.5

Matt Leinart

31

29

47

22

0

-19

-0.86

-1.0

-0.044

-0.026

-0.117

52.1

Drew Brees

32

31

227

47

5

-64

-1.36

-5.9

-0.125

-0.180

-0.383

39.6

Marc Bulger

33

32

109

27

3

-62

-2.30

-5.3

-0.198

-0.156

-0.579

35.6