Passer Ratings: Through Week 17 (2009 Final)

Below are my passer ratings through week 17. See here for the methodology (including an update as to what the numbers actually mean). Basically, the values can be loosely treated as the number of points a team would score with a given QB (passing offense) vs if they had an average QB. So, if Peyton has a 5.75, this means that his team is scoring 5.75 more points per game than if they had an average QB in his place.

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Passer Rating Through Week 17

(Minimum 224 Attempts)

New Rating				Traditional Rating
Rank	Player	Rating	Change From Wk 16	Rating	Rank
1	Philip Rivers	5.17	0	104.4	3
2	Drew Brees	4.72	0	109.6	1
3	Tony Romo	3.46	3	97.6	8
4	Tom Brady	3.44	(1)	96.2	9
5	Matt Schaub	3.35	0	98.6	7
6	Peyton Manning	3.20	(2)	99.9	6
7	Brett Favre	2.93	3	107.2	2
8	Aaron Rodgers	2.53	3	103.2	4
9	Eli Manning	2.44	(2)	93.1	11
10	Ben Roethlisberger	2.25	(1)	100.5	5
11	Donovan McNabb	1.94	(3)	92.9	12
12	Vince Young	1.44	0	82.8	18
13	Kurt Warner	0.61	0	93.2	10
14	Joe Flacco	0.28	0	88.9	13
15	Kyle Orton	0.17	0	86.8	14
16	Matt Ryan	-0.64	0	80.9	20
17	Jason Campbell	-0.90	2	86.4	15
18	David Garrard	-0.94	(1)	83.5	17
19	Carson Palmer	-1.34	(1)	83.6	16
20	Chad Henne	-1.83	0	75.2	22
21	Jay Cutler	-2.21	0	76.8	21
22	Alex Smith	-2.40	0	81.5	19
23	Marc Bulger	-3.50	3	70.7	24
24	Matt Hasselbeck	-3.52	0	75.1	23
25	Mark Sanchez	-3.56	2	63.0	28
26	Josh Freeman	-3.80	(1)	59.9	30
27	Matt Cassel	-3.94	2	69.9	25
28	Ryan Fitzpatrick	-4.00	N/A	69.7	26
29	Jake Delhomme	-4.36	(1)	59.4	31
30	Matthew Stafford	-4.64	0	61.0	29
31	Brady Quinn	-4.84	0	67.2	27
32	JaMarcus Russell	-6.66	0	50.0	32

Passer Ratings:  Week 17 Only

Rank	Player	Rating
1	Brett Favre	13.5
2	Aaron Rodgers	9.3
3	Tony Romo	7.2
4	Matt Cassel	5.6
5	Ryan Fitzpatrick	4.3
6	Matt Schaub	3.3
7	Jason Campbell	3.1
8	Philip Rivers	3.0
9	Charlie Frye	2.6
10	Daunte Culpepper	2.3
11	Jay Cutler	1.9
12	Billy Volek	1.7
13	Ben Roethlisberger	1.2
14	Matt Moore	0.5
15	Tom Brady	0.0
16	Alex Smith	-0.8
17	Kyle Orton	-1.0
18	Chad Henne	-1.1
19	JaMarcus Russell	-2.4
20	Vince Young	-3.1
21	Peyton Manning	-3.2
22	Donovan McNabb	-3.2
23	Matt Ryan	-3.4
24	Mark Sanchez	-4.4
25	Eli Manning	-6.0
26	Matt Hasselbeck	-6.3
27	David Garrard	-6.5
28	Josh Freeman	-7.5
29	Matt Leinart	-7.6
30	Joe Flacco	-8.2
31	Mark Brunell	-8.2
32	Curtis Painter	-11.7
33	Keith Null	-13.2