Thursday, February 01, 2007

Einstein's Theory of Passer Relativity While marking time until the Super Bowl, the New York Times came up with a feature story the other day on the "passer rating" of quarterbacks throughout the championship's history. The current contenders, Peyton Manning and Rex Grossman, have regular season ratings of 101.0 and 73.9, respectively, a huge relative disparity. So I got curious about just how exactly the so-called passer rating is figured. I imagined it was some combination of pass attempts, completions, interceptions and yardage. But I slogged through the dissertation-long NYT article in vain looking for a definition. That sent me to Wikipedia and maybe you'll laugh like I did when you see what I found. (and I thought baseball stats were esoteric..) Hint: the final equation is  .   8:30:02 PM    comment []

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