Offensive Passer Rating

Final Statistics for the 2011 Season

About Offensive Passer Rating. Offensive Passer Rating is merely the commonly used measure of quarterbacks, applied to the entire team, so it measures the performance of each quarterback on the roster. Passer rating is often criticized by ignorant football "analysts" for being overly complex. But its usefulness as a measure of team success is truly underappreciated in the football community beyond the Mighty Cold, Hard Football Facts. Like all of our Quality Stats, which are based on efficiency, Offensive Passer Rating has a much higher Correlation to Victory than volume stats, such as passing yards. Most great teams throughout history have a very strong Offensive Passer Rating, even if they did not pass for a lot of yards (the 1960s Packers are perhaps the greatest example).The Cold, Hard Football Facts have issued countless studies of the importance of Offensive Passer Rating, Defensive Passer Rating and Passer Rating Differential, each of them critical Quality Stats, including here on SportsIllustrated.com in the summer of 2011.

Rank	Offensive Passer Rating_R	Team	Att	Comp	%	PYds	PY/A	TD	Int	OPR
3 ∼	3	New England	612	402	65.69	5257	8.59	39	12	105.68
12 ↓ 1	12	Miami	469	280	59.70	3425	7.30	20	13	84.93
22 ↓ 3	22	Minnesota	510	286	56.08	3255	6.38	20	17	74.59
32 ∼	32	Jacksonville	469	240	51.17	2510	5.35	12	15	62.23
28 ↑ 1	28	Kansas City	501	300	59.88	3294	6.57	13	18	73.06
7 ↓ 1	7	Houston	467	288	61.67	3696	7.91	20	9	92.70
30 ∼	30	Indianapolis	534	302	56.55	3223	6.04	14	14	72.18
5 ∼	5	Detroit	666	423	63.51	5071	7.61	41	16	97.25
1 ∼	1	Green Bay	551	375	68.06	5155	9.36	51	8	122.58
6 ↑ 3	6	N.Y. Giants	589	359	60.95	4933	8.38	29	16	92.87
2 ∼	2	New Orleans	662	472	71.30	5505	8.32	46	14	110.50
18 ↓ 1	18	N.Y. Jets	547	310	56.67	3542	6.48	26	18	78.42
17 ↑ 4	17	Oakland	524	315	60.11	4119	7.86	20	23	79.37
19 ↑ 4	19	Philadelphia	554	330	59.57	4276	7.72	22	25	78.32
10 ↓ 3	10	Pittsburgh	539	341	63.27	4333	8.04	21	15	89.69
11 ↑ 1	11	San Diego	582	366	62.89	4624	7.95	27	20	88.74
8 ↑ 2	8	San Francisco	452	278	61.50	3199	7.08	18	5	91.49
20 ∼	20	Seattle	509	299	58.74	3444	6.77	15	14	77.59
31 ∼	31	St. Louis	548	291	53.10	3229	5.89	9	10	68.76
15 ↑ 1	15	Baltimore	544	314	57.72	3629	6.67	21	12	81.66
9 ↓ 1	9	Atlanta	594	365	61.45	4365	7.35	29	13	91.06
26 ↓ 4	26	Denver	429	217	50.58	2708	6.31	20	13	73.45
23 ↑ 3	23	Arizona	550	307	55.82	3954	7.19	21	23	73.86
25 ↑ 2	25	Tampa Bay	588	365	62.07	3838	6.53	17	24	73.64
16 ↓ 1	16	Cincinnati	535	308	57.57	3507	6.56	21	14	79.55
24 ↑ 4	24	Chicago	473	268	56.66	3346	7.07	18	20	73.84
27 ↓ 2	27	Washington	591	346	58.54	4055	6.86	19	24	73.26
13 ∼	13	Carolina	519	312	60.12	4089	7.88	21	17	84.85
14 ∼	14	Tennessee	584	353	60.45	4113	7.04	22	14	84.37
21 ↓ 3	21	Buffalo	578	356	61.59	3857	6.67	24	25	77.03
4 ∼	4	Dallas	570	376	65.96	4453	7.81	33	12	100.13
29 ↓ 5	29	Cleveland	570	320	56.14	3300	5.79	16	13	72.84

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