Adjusting Passer Rating for Era: Complete Rating And Rankings (Thru 2018)

by Chase Stuart on April 10, 2019

On Saturday, I looked at the era-adjusted leaders in completion percentage. On Sunday, I did the same for yards/attempt, on Monday, I analyzed the era-adjusted leaders in touchdown rate, and yesterday continued the analysis but for interception percentage.

I thought it would be helpful to have all the information in one place, so that’s what today’s post is. Here’s how to read the table below.
Otto Graham threw 2,626 pass attempts, and played from 1946 to 1955. He is in the Hall of Fame. Based on the passer rating formula — where 1.00 represents league average (a 66.67 era-adjusted passer rating), and a 1.50 in each category translates to a 100.00 passer rating — Graham scored a 1.40 in completion percentage, 1.53 in yards/attempt, 1.25 in touchdown rate, and 1.53 in interception rate. If you add those four numbers and divide by 6 — yes, this is exactly how passer rating is calculated! — you get 95.2, which is Graham’s era-adjusted passer rating. The full results are below.

EA PR Rk	Player	Att	First Yr	Last Year	HOF	Cmp%	Y/A	TD%	INT %	EA PR
1	Otto Graham	2626	1946	1955	HOF	1.40	1.53	1.25	1.53	95.2
2	Sid Luckman	1744	1939	1950	HOF	1.33	1.45	1.45	1.41	93.9
3	Sammy Baugh	2995	1937	1952	HOF	1.58	1.20	1.17	1.56	92
4	Len Dawson	3741	1957	1975	HOF	1.40	1.22	1.34	1.24	86.6
5	Steve Young	4149	1985	1999	HOF	1.36	1.29	1.32	1.22	86.5
6	Roger Staubach	2958	1969	1979	HOF	1.23	1.25	1.21	1.39	84.6
7	Joe Montana	5391	1979	1994	HOF	1.36	1.13	1.18	1.35	83.8
8	Aaron Rodgers	5492	2005	2018	HOF Lock	1.14	1.17	1.36	1.30	82.9
9	Frankie Albert	1564	1946	1952	no	1.27	1.00	1.35	1.29	81.8
10	Norm Van Brocklin	2895	1949	1960	HOF	1.24	1.29	1.18	1.18	81.6
11	Peyton Manning	9380	1998	2015	HOF Lock	1.27	1.19	1.32	1.09	81
12	Sonny Jurgensen	4262	1957	1974	HOF	1.27	1.11	1.19	1.26	80.3
13	Ken Anderson	4475	1971	1986	no	1.28	1.13	1.04	1.33	79.8
14	Kurt Warner	4070	1998	2009	HOF	1.29	1.27	1.22	1.00	79.8
15	Tom Brady	9375	2000	2018	HOF Lock	1.15	1.13	1.25	1.26	79.7
16	Fran Tarkenton	6467	1961	1978	HOF	1.25	1.08	1.12	1.32	79.7
17	Drew Brees	9783	2001	2018	HOF Lock	1.31	1.15	1.21	1.11	79.4
18	Tony Romo	4335	2004	2016	never el	1.21	1.21	1.29	1.04	79.2
19	Bob Griese	3429	1967	1980	HOF	1.25	1.15	1.25	1.09	79
20	Bart Starr	3149	1956	1971	HOF	1.30	1.15	0.93	1.33	78.7
21	Russell Wilson	3261	2012	2018	never el	1.08	1.17	1.31	1.13	78.4
22	Y.A. Tittle	4395	1948	1964	HOF	1.28	1.10	1.05	1.24	77.8
23	Johnny Unitas	5186	1956	1973	HOF	1.16	1.14	1.09	1.23	77.2
24	Bert Jones	2551	1973	1982	no	1.13	1.09	1.14	1.27	77.2
25	Dan Marino	8358	1983	1999	HOF	1.15	1.11	1.20	1.16	76.9
26	Daryle Lamonica	2601	1963	1974	no	1.01	1.14	1.33	1.11	76.5
27	Philip Rivers	7000	2004	2018	never el	1.14	1.18	1.20	1.04	76.1
28	Charlie Conerly	2833	1948	1961	no	1.08	0.99	1.18	1.29	75.7
29	Chad Pennington	2471	2000	2010	no	1.30	1.09	1.01	1.13	75.4
30	Dan Fouts	5604	1973	1987	HOF	1.21	1.19	1.06	1.06	75.4
31	Frank Ryan	2133	1958	1970	no	0.98	1.07	1.35	1.10	75.1
32	Ben Roethlisberger	7168	2004	2018	HOF Lock	1.14	1.19	1.15	1.02	75
33	Jim Kelly	4779	1986	1996	HOF	1.17	1.14	1.20	0.98	74.9
34	Neil Lomax	3153	1981	1988	no	1.11	1.05	1.02	1.32	74.9
35	Bob Waterfield	1617	1945	1952	HOF	1.20	1.14	1.10	1.04	74.6
36	Matt Ryan	6201	2008	2018	never el	1.17	1.10	1.08	1.12	74.6
37	Jeff Garcia	3676	1999	2009	no	1.12	1.04	1.08	1.23	74.3
38	Danny White	2950	1976	1988	no	1.21	1.10	1.19	0.96	74.3
39	Daunte Culpepper	3199	1999	2009	no	1.18	1.18	1.12	0.97	74.1
40	Roman Gabriel	4498	1962	1977	no	1.04	0.91	0.96	1.50	73.6
41	Greg Landry	2300	1968	1984	no	1.15	1.06	1.00	1.21	73.6
42	Rich Gannon	4206	1987	2004	no	1.12	1.01	1.06	1.22	73.5
43	Earl Morrall	2689	1956	1976	no	1.00	1.14	1.18	1.08	73.4
44	Brett Favre	10169	1991	2010	HOF	1.16	1.06	1.20	0.98	73.3
45	Ken Stabler	3793	1970	1984	HOF	1.30	1.14	1.19	0.77	73.3
46	Tom Flores	1715	1960	1969	no	1.08	1.05	1.08	1.18	73.1
47	Bernie Kosar	3365	1985	1996	no	1.16	0.99	0.93	1.30	73
48	Trent Green	3740	1997	2008	no	1.08	1.20	1.05	1.05	73
49	Craig Morton	3786	1965	1982	no	1.07	1.14	1.10	1.04	72.6
50	Billy Kilmer	2984	1961	1978	no	1.06	1.02	1.12	1.13	72.3
51	Dave Krieg	5311	1980	1998	no	1.10	1.06	1.17	1.01	72.3
52	Joe Theismann	3602	1974	1985	no	1.09	1.01	1.05	1.19	72.3
53	Kirk Cousins	2702	2012	2018	never el	1.17	1.10	1.06	1.00	72.2
54	Randall Cunningham	4289	1985	2001	no	1.02	1.02	1.15	1.13	72.1
55	Ken O'Brien	3602	1984	1993	no	1.14	1.00	0.90	1.28	72
56	Mark Brunell	4640	1994	2011	no	1.06	1.04	0.99	1.22	71.9
57	Boomer Esiason	5205	1984	1997	no	1.03	1.10	1.15	1.03	71.7
58	Matt Schaub	3281	2004	2018	never el	1.15	1.14	0.96	1.05	71.7
59	Don Meredith	2308	1960	1968	no	0.95	1.05	1.12	1.17	71.6
60	Tony Eason	1564	1983	1990	no	1.13	1.02	0.94	1.20	71.5
61	Donovan McNabb	5374	1999	2011	no	0.96	1.02	1.06	1.24	71.3
62	Gary Danielson	1932	1976	1988	no	1.10	1.04	1.00	1.14	71.2
63	Warren Moon	6823	1984	2000	HOF	1.09	1.08	1.05	1.04	71.2
64	Troy Aikman	4715	1989	2000	HOF	1.21	1.04	0.91	1.10	71.1
65	Neil O'Donnell	3229	1991	2003	no	1.01	0.99	0.97	1.30	71.1
66	John Hadl	4687	1962	1977	no	1.05	1.10	1.13	0.98	71
67	Brian Sipe	3439	1974	1983	no	1.10	1.00	1.06	1.10	70.9
68	John Brodie	4491	1957	1973	no	1.18	0.98	0.96	1.14	70.9
69	Billy Wade	2523	1954	1966	no	1.16	1.00	0.92	1.18	70.8
70	Milt Plum	2419	1957	1969	no	1.14	0.98	0.94	1.19	70.7
71	Steve Bartkowski	3456	1975	1986	no	1.05	1.01	1.06	1.12	70.7
72	Phil Simms	4647	1979	1993	no	0.99	1.05	1.03	1.16	70.6
73	Brad Johnson	4326	1994	2008	no	1.16	0.99	0.97	1.10	70.4
74	John Elway	7250	1983	1998	HOF	1.02	1.05	1.02	1.13	70.4
75	Terry Bradshaw	3901	1970	1983	HOF	0.94	1.10	1.24	0.94	70.3
76	Bill Munson	1982	1964	1979	no	1.11	0.90	0.90	1.30	70.3
77	Steve McNair	4544	1995	2007	no	1.08	1.03	0.96	1.15	70.3
78	Bobby Layne	3700	1948	1962	HOF	1.01	1.06	1.03	1.10	70.1
79	Jeff Hostetler	2338	1985	1997	no	1.02	1.06	1.04	1.07	70
80	David Garrard	2281	2002	2010	no	1.05	1.02	0.96	1.16	69.9
81	Steve Beuerlein	3328	1988	2003	no	0.98	1.11	1.10	1.00	69.8
82	Marc Bulger	3171	2002	2009	no	1.11	1.08	0.95	1.05	69.8
83	Carson Palmer	6307	2004	2017	never el	1.07	1.08	1.08	0.96	69.8
84	Jeff George	3967	1990	2001	no	1.03	1.04	1.00	1.11	69.7
85	Jim McMahon	2573	1982	1996	no	1.09	1.02	0.97	1.10	69.7
86	Brian Griese	2796	1998	2008	no	1.18	1.04	1.04	0.92	69.6
87	Bobby Hebert	3121	1985	1996	no	1.12	1.02	1.08	0.94	69.4
88	Mark Rypien	2613	1988	2001	no	0.96	1.04	1.10	1.06	69.4
89	Bill Kenney	2430	1980	1988	no	0.95	1.01	1.01	1.17	69.1
90	Bill Nelsen	1905	1963	1972	no	0.95	1.12	1.06	1.00	68.9
91	Jim Everett	4923	1986	1997	no	1.05	1.05	1.03	1.00	68.8
92	Chris Chandler	4005	1988	2004	no	1.03	1.08	1.06	0.95	68.8
93	Joe Namath	3762	1965	1977	HOF	1.04	1.16	1.01	0.91	68.7
94	Elvis Grbac	2445	1994	2001	no	1.07	1.03	1.02	0.99	68.5
95	Ron Jaworski	4117	1974	1989	no	0.91	0.97	1.03	1.15	67.8
96	Alex Smith	4941	2005	2018	never el	1.04	0.95	0.92	1.17	67.8
97	Andy Dalton	3921	2011	2018	never el	1.01	1.00	1.08	0.97	67.7
98	Matthew Stafford	5405	2009	2018	never el	1.02	0.99	1.00	1.05	67.7
99	Colin Kaepernick	1692	2011	2016	never el	0.88	1.02	0.97	1.19	67.6
100	Andrew Luck	3290	2012	2018	never el	0.91	1.00	1.14	0.99	67.5
101	George Blanda	4007	1949	1975	HOF	0.99	0.98	1.18	0.88	67.4
102	Jim Harbaugh	3918	1987	2000	no	1.08	0.97	0.87	1.10	67.3
103	Steve DeBerg	5024	1978	1998	no	1.08	0.96	0.96	1.03	67.3
104	Charley Johnson	3392	1961	1975	no	0.97	1.03	1.02	1.00	67
105	Wade Wilson	2428	1981	1998	no	1.06	1.05	1.01	0.90	66.9
106	Matt Hasselbeck	5330	1999	2015	never el	1.01	0.99	0.96	1.04	66.8
107	Nick Foles	1581	2012	2018	never el	0.96	0.97	0.96	1.11	66.7
108	Jake Delhomme	2932	1999	2011	no	0.97	1.07	1.04	0.92	66.6
109	Jay Cutler	4920	2006	2017	never el	1.03	1.02	1.07	0.88	66.5
110	Jeff Blake	3241	1992	2005	no	0.92	0.99	1.04	1.04	66.5
111	Marcus Mariota	1605	2015	2018	never el	1.01	1.07	0.97	0.94	66.5
112	Tommy Kramer	3651	1977	1990	no	1.00	0.95	1.04	1.00	66.4
113	Lynn Dickey	3125	1971	1985	no	1.05	1.13	1.05	0.75	66.3
114	Jim Hart	5076	1966	1984	no	0.92	1.01	0.96	1.08	66.1
115	Archie Manning	3642	1971	1984	no	1.09	0.94	0.84	1.08	66
116	Steve Grogan	3593	1975	1990	no	0.90	1.15	1.18	0.73	65.9
117	Derek Carr	2800	2014	2018	never el	0.99	0.87	0.97	1.12	65.8
118	Erik Kramer	2299	1987	1999	no	1.00	0.97	1.01	0.96	65.8
119	Babe Parilli	3330	1952	1969	no	0.95	1.00	1.07	0.92	65.7
120	Doug Flutie	2151	1986	2005	no	0.87	1.01	1.00	1.06	65.6
121	Chris Miller	2892	1987	1999	no	0.90	0.94	1.06	1.02	65.4
122	Ryan Tannehill	2911	2012	2018	never el	1.02	0.96	0.95	0.98	65.3
123	Aaron Brooks	2963	2000	2006	no	0.86	1.01	1.02	1.02	65.2
124	Stan Humphries	2516	1989	1997	no	0.96	1.02	0.93	1.00	65.2
125	Eli Manning	7972	2004	2018	never el	0.94	0.99	1.04	0.94	65.2
126	Charlie Batch	1604	1998	2012	no	0.92	1.03	0.96	1.01	65.1
127	Jim Plunkett	3701	1971	1986	no	0.94	1.04	1.04	0.88	65.1
128	Eddie LeBaron	1796	1952	1963	no	1.01	1.08	1.12	0.71	65.1
129	Cam Newton	3892	2011	2018	never el	0.87	1.04	1.05	0.95	65.1
130	Drew Bledsoe	6717	1993	2006	no	0.95	0.97	0.95	1.03	65.1
131	Mike Livingston	1751	1968	1979	no	1.00	0.95	0.80	1.15	65.1
132	Joe Ferguson	4519	1973	1990	no	0.90	0.93	1.03	1.04	65
133	Jason Campbell	2518	2006	2014	never el	0.97	0.92	0.86	1.15	64.9
134	Jay Fiedler	1717	1995	2005	no	0.99	1.03	1.00	0.86	64.8
135	Jameis Winston	1922	2015	2018	never el	0.92	1.10	1.02	0.84	64.7
136	Steve Bono	1701	1985	1999	no	0.88	0.84	0.94	1.22	64.7
137	Scott Mitchell	2346	1991	2001	no	0.90	0.99	1.03	0.96	64.6
138	Byron Leftwich	1605	2003	2012	no	0.91	0.93	0.90	1.13	64.5
139	Jon Kitna	4442	1997	2011	no	1.05	0.97	0.95	0.88	64.3
140	Sam Bradford	2967	2010	2018	never el	1.04	0.86	0.82	1.14	64.3
141	Michael Vick	3217	2001	2015	never el	0.80	1.01	0.99	1.06	64.3
142	Joe Flacco	5670	2008	2018	never el	1.00	0.91	0.88	1.06	64.1
143	Vinny Testaverde	6701	1987	2007	no	0.95	1.01	1.02	0.85	64
144	Jim Zorn	3149	1976	1987	no	0.94	0.96	0.87	1.07	64
145	Tobin Rote	2907	1950	1966	no	0.85	0.88	1.01	1.10	63.9
146	Kyle Orton	2712	2005	2014	never el	0.93	0.91	0.91	1.09	63.9
147	Don Majkowski	1905	1987	1996	no	0.97	0.92	0.89	1.05	63.9
148	Doug Williams	2507	1978	1989	no	0.73	0.96	0.96	1.18	63.7
149	Vince Ferragamo	1615	1977	1986	no	1.00	0.99	1.08	0.75	63.6
150	Norm Snead	4353	1961	1976	no	1.02	1.00	0.91	0.88	63.5
151	Bubby Brister	2212	1986	2000	no	0.91	0.91	0.94	1.05	63.5
152	Ed Brown	1987	1954	1965	no	0.86	1.14	0.96	0.84	63.3
153	Tim Couch	1714	1999	2003	no	1.06	0.94	0.96	0.84	63.2
154	Jay Schroeder	2808	1985	1994	no	0.73	1.05	1.01	0.98	62.9
155	Richard Todd	2967	1976	1985	no	0.96	1.00	0.99	0.80	62.4
156	Rodney Peete	2346	1989	2004	no	0.98	1.04	0.86	0.86	62.3
157	Jack Kemp	3073	1957	1969	no	0.95	1.03	0.75	1.00	62.2
158	Jake Plummer	4350	1997	2006	no	0.93	0.98	0.93	0.88	62
159	Gus Frerotte	3106	1994	2008	no	0.82	1.02	0.94	0.93	61.9
160	Case Keenum	1844	2012	2018	never el	0.95	0.92	0.80	1.04	61.7
161	Eric Hipple	1546	1980	1989	no	0.91	0.97	0.87	0.95	61.6
162	Tony Banks	2356	1996	2005	no	0.84	0.94	0.86	1.04	61.4
163	Ryan Fitzpatrick	4285	2005	2018	never el	0.92	0.93	1.02	0.80	61.3
164	Frank Tripucka	1745	1949	1963	no	1.15	0.80	0.77	0.95	61.3
165	Josh McCown	2628	2002	2018	never el	0.94	0.92	0.88	0.92	61
166	David Carr	2267	2002	2012	no	1.00	0.89	0.75	1.00	60.7
167	Kerry Collins	6261	1995	2011	no	0.84	0.93	0.86	1.01	60.6
168	Cotton Davidson	1752	1954	1968	no	0.80	0.97	0.82	1.04	60.5
169	Matt Cassel	2684	2005	2018	never el	0.88	0.87	0.93	0.95	60.4
170	Dan Pastorini	3055	1971	1983	no	0.92	0.84	0.84	0.99	59.9
171	Mike Tomczak	2337	1985	1999	no	0.84	1.00	0.96	0.79	59.9
172	Josh Freeman	2048	2009	2015	never el	0.85	0.92	0.93	0.88	59.8
173	Marc Wilson	2081	1980	1990	no	0.84	0.97	0.98	0.79	59.5
174	Kordell Stewart	2358	1995	2005	no	0.91	0.88	0.85	0.92	59.2
175	Trent Dilfer	3172	1994	2007	no	0.87	0.93	0.91	0.79	58.2
176	Blake Bortles	2632	2014	2018	never el	0.81	0.88	0.89	0.89	57.8
177	Chad Henne	1959	2008	2018	never el	0.92	0.89	0.73	0.91	57.5
178	Billy Joe Tolliver	1707	1989	1999	no	0.77	0.86	0.89	0.92	57.3
179	Dave Brown	1634	1992	2001	no	0.85	0.88	0.75	0.91	56.6
180	Rex Grossman	1562	2003	2012	no	0.76	0.89	0.89	0.81	55.8
181	Joey Harrington	2538	2002	2007	no	0.82	0.74	0.80	0.95	55.3
182	Mike Pagel	1509	1982	1993	no	0.71	0.79	0.81	1.00	55.3
183	Jack Trudeau	1644	1986	1995	no	0.85	0.82	0.70	0.94	55.1
184	Kyle Boller	1519	2003	2011	no	0.84	0.75	0.79	0.93	55.1
185	Mark Sanchez	2320	2009	2018	never el	0.78	0.88	0.88	0.76	54.9
186	Mark Malone	1648	1980	1989	no	0.79	0.79	0.89	0.79	54.3
187	Derek Anderson	1674	2006	2018	never el	0.66	0.88	0.87	0.80	53.6
188	Mike Phipps	1799	1970	1981	no	0.83	0.78	0.76	0.82	53.2
189	Rick Mirer	2043	1993	2003	no	0.77	0.78	0.72	0.87	52.4

In addition, I’m presenting the data in rank form, and color-coded to make it easier to view and spot outliers. Graham ranks 3rd in era-adjusted completion percentage, 1st in yards/attempt, 12th in touchdown rate, and 2nd in interception rate. Enjoy!

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