Yards per Pass Attempt (Y/A)

Also written: Y/A, YPA, AY/A

Standard statistic · NFL

The simplest passing efficiency rate: a passer's gross passing yards divided by his pass attempts. In official NFL scoring a sack is not a pass attempt, and an individual passer's yards do not have sack yardage subtracted (team net passing yards do).

Adjusted yards per attempt (AY/A) adds 20 yards for every touchdown pass and subtracts 45 for every interception, so scoring and turnovers move the number.

Formula

Y/A = Passing yards ÷ Pass attempts
AY/A = (Passing yards + 20 × TD − 45 × Int) ÷ Pass attempts

On StatVault

Computed in-house from season totals and shown as the Y/A and AdjY/A columns in the passing table of every NFL player profile. There is no yards-per-attempt leaderboard yet.

Shown on: NFL player profiles — passing table, columns Y/A and AdjY/A

Computed in src/lib/profile/nfl-columns.ts.