Passer Rating Differential

Final Statistics for the 2011 Season

About Passer Rating Differential. This indicator is nothing more than the difference between a team's Offensive Passer Rating and Defensive Passer Rating. We call it the "mother stat" of football analysis because it has an incredible Correlation to Victory: as CHFF Insiders know, 40 of 69 NFL champs since 1940 (58%) finished No. 1 or No. 2 in Passer Rating Differential, nearly the same number that finished No. 1 or No. 2 in scoring differential (Insiders can see the entire history of both indicators here). In fact, we would argue that you cannot truly analyze football without studying Passer Rating Differential. 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	Passer Rating Differential_R	Team	Off PR	Def PR	PRD
4 ↑ 1	4	New England	105.68	86.11	19.58
14 ∼	14	Miami	84.93	83.67	1.26
32 ↓ 1	32	Minnesota	74.59	107.57	- 32.98
29 ↑ 1	29	Jacksonville	62.23	83.74	- 21.51
20 ↑ 3	20	Kansas City	73.06	79.06	- 6.00
3 ↓ 1	3	Houston	92.70	69.01	23.68
31 ↑ 1	31	Indianapolis	72.18	103.88	- 31.70
7 ↓ 3	7	Detroit	97.25	82.12	15.13
1 ∼	1	Green Bay	122.58	80.58	42.01
12 ∼	12	N.Y. Giants	92.87	86.10	6.76
2 ↑ 1	2	New Orleans	110.50	86.43	24.06
10 ∼	10	N.Y. Jets	78.42	69.59	8.84
16 ∼	16	Oakland	79.37	81.27	- 1.91
21 ↑ 4	21	Philadelphia	78.32	85.68	- 7.37
5 ↑ 1	5	Pittsburgh	89.69	71.75	17.95
17 ↑ 1	17	San Diego	88.74	92.55	- 3.81
6 ↑ 1	6	San Francisco	91.49	73.60	17.89
13 ∼	13	Seattle	77.59	74.75	2.84
27 ∼	27	St. Louis	68.76	87.33	- 18.57
8 ↑ 1	8	Baltimore	81.66	68.83	12.83
11 ∼	11	Atlanta	91.06	83.31	7.75
28 ∼	28	Denver	73.45	93.12	- 19.67
23 ↓ 1	23	Arizona	73.86	82.37	- 8.52
30 ↓ 1	30	Tampa Bay	73.64	97.21	- 23.58
18 ↓ 1	18	Cincinnati	79.55	84.97	- 5.42
19 ↑ 1	19	Chicago	73.84	79.30	- 5.45
26 ∼	26	Washington	73.26	87.41	- 14.16
25 ↓ 4	25	Carolina	84.85	98.33	- 13.49
15 ∼	15	Tennessee	84.37	85.06	- 0.69
24 ∼	24	Buffalo	77.03	90.38	- 13.35
9 ↓ 1	9	Dallas	100.13	88.37	11.76
22 ↓ 3	22	Cleveland	72.84	80.60	- 7.76

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