ESPN Total Quarterback Rating: How Does Colt McCoy Grade Out?

August 6, 2011   ·   Sam Toth   ·   Jump to comments

ESPN recently unveiled its new Total Quarterback Rating (QBR), a new metric to measuring a quarterback’s performance—unapologetically leaving “passer rating” in the dust.
The worldwide leader did not reveal the sure-to-be complicated formula in its entirety, but they did give us the gist of why we should be excited about it.
For one, we should be pumped to have something other than passer rating, which was apparently pretty weak:
"It takes completions, passing yards, touchdown passes and interceptions, all on a per-attempt basis, compares each to a league-average figure, and mashes them into one number. But passer rating doesn’t attempt to weight its categories by their importance to winning football games. It just averages them together, which tends to bias scores heavily in favor of QBs who complete a lot of short passes, driving up completion percentage without necessarily generating more yards or points. It’s even possible, ...

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