Also written: Rate, QB rating, Passer rating
Standard statistic · NFL
The NFL's official measure of passing efficiency, adopted by the league in 1973. It combines four per-attempt rates — completion percentage, yards per attempt, touchdown rate and interception rate — each scaled and capped so no single component can dominate. The result runs from 0.0 to a maximum of 158.3, the so-called perfect rating.
The college (NCAA) passer-efficiency rating uses a different, uncapped formula on a different scale; the two numbers are not comparable.
a = (Cmp ÷ Att − 0.3) × 5 b = (Yds ÷ Att − 3) × 0.25 c = (TD ÷ Att) × 20 d = 2.375 − (Int ÷ Att × 25) Each of a, b, c and d is limited to the range 0 to 2.375. Rating = (a + b + c + d) ÷ 6 × 100
Computed in-house from each season's completions, attempts, passing yards, touchdowns and interceptions, and shown as the Rate column in the passing table of every NFL player profile. Multi-season totals are re-rated from the summed components, not averaged season by season. There is no passer-rating leaderboard yet.
Shown on: NFL player profiles — passing table, column Rate