QB Passer Rating?

nocloning · 10-23-2003, 12:10 PM

If you are interested in football you know the flaws of the QB rating and take the number with a grain of salt. It should be called passer rating, but otherwise I wouldn\'t change too much.
Possible changes:
1. Take away the limitations on the four statistical numbers. I don\'t see how that helps a fair assessment of a passer.
2. Give more importance to the yards per attempt statistic. The current system punishes players who like to throw long and makes QBs in a true West Coast offense look very good. Either that or lower the importance of completion percentage (I prefer the first version though).

YAC have to stay, rushings yards and fumbles have to be left out - it is a passer rating and always was, just a confusing name -, don\'t add a subjective stat like dropped passes to the equation, don\'t add the thrown away balls to avoid sacks (as saintz08 said, might have been his own fault).

I wouldn\'t even try to get my changes worked into the rating because it makes comparisions more difficult (hard enough to compare rushers from the 14-game era with the 16-game era). Just leave it as it is and don\'t pay more attention to it than to the 40-yard times at the scouting combine. Ask Steve Young what his league record rating was, I doubt he would be able to tell you.

10-23-2003, 12:10 PM	#1
nocloning 100th Post Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 302	QB Passer Rating? If you are interested in football you know the flaws of the QB rating and take the number with a grain of salt. It should be called passer rating, but otherwise I wouldn\'t change too much. Possible changes: 1. Take away the limitations on the four statistical numbers. I don\'t see how that helps a fair assessment of a passer. 2. Give more importance to the yards per attempt statistic. The current system punishes players who like to throw long and makes QBs in a true West Coast offense look very good. Either that or lower the importance of completion percentage (I prefer the first version though). YAC have to stay, rushings yards and fumbles have to be left out - it is a passer rating and always was, just a confusing name -, don\'t add a subjective stat like dropped passes to the equation, don\'t add the thrown away balls to avoid sacks (as saintz08 said, might have been his own fault). I wouldn\'t even try to get my changes worked into the rating because it makes comparisions more difficult (hard enough to compare rushers from the 14-game era with the 16-game era). Just leave it as it is and don\'t pay more attention to it than to the 40-yard times at the scouting combine. Ask Steve Young what his league record rating was, I doubt he would be able to tell you.
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