Passers In Week 9 (2015) Generated The Best TD/INT Ratio Ever

by Chase Stuart on November 10, 2015

With six teams on bye this week, that left 26 teams playing in week nine. Not a single one of the main quarterbacks for any of those teams averaged fewer than 4.00 Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt. That’s incredible: overall, quarterbacks this week averaged an insane 7.12 ANY/A. Take a look: the table below shows the passing stats from all 30 players who threw a pass in week 9. I have calculated the Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt for each player as well, along with their VALUE (ANY/A minus league average multiplied by number of dropbacks) provided relative to league average, with one catch: league average is 7.12. As a result, all of the quarterback grades feel a little depressed.

Rk	Player	Att	Pass Yd	TD	INT	Sk	SkYd	ANY/A	DB	VALUE
1	Marcus Mariota	39	371	4	0	0	0	11.56	39	173
2	Cam Newton	30	297	3	1	0	0	10.40	30	98
3	Andy Dalton	27	234	3	0	2	15	9.62	29	73
4	Tyrod Taylor	12	181	1	0	3	27	11.60	15	67
5	Drew Brees	39	387	3	1	4	32	8.60	43	64
6	Ryan Fitzpatrick	34	272	2	0	2	11	8.36	36	45
7	Sam Bradford	36	295	1	0	1	8	8.30	37	44
8	Jay Cutler	40	345	2	1	1	8	8.10	41	40
9	Landry Jones	6	79	0	0	0	0	13.17	6	36
10	Derek Carr	44	301	4	1	0	0	7.64	44	23
11	Andrew Luck	36	252	2	0	1	7	7.70	37	22
12	Tom Brady	39	299	2	1	0	0	7.54	39	16
13	Ryan Tannehill	36	309	0	0	2	27	7.42	38	11
14	Jarvis Landry	1	9	0	0	0	0	9.00	1	2
15	Ben Roethlisberger	44	334	2	1	1	11	7.07	45	-2
16	Matt Cassel	38	299	3	1	4	22	6.95	42	-7
17	Colin Kaepernick	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	-7
18	Jameis Winston	36	249	0	0	0	0	6.92	36	-7
19	Aaron Rodgers	48	369	4	1	5	38	6.91	53	-11
20	Matt Ryan	45	303	1	0	2	18	6.49	47	-30
21	Philip Rivers	42	280	1	0	2	18	6.41	44	-31
22	Peyton Manning	36	281	2	2	1	7	6.05	37	-39
23	Blake Bortles	40	381	2	2	6	43	6.26	46	-39
24	Blaine Gabbert	25	185	2	2	0	0	5.40	25	-43
25	Shaun Hill	6	15	0	0	1	11	0.57	7	-46
26	Teddy Bridgewater	21	144	0	1	0	0	4.71	21	-51
27	Nick Foles	33	168	0	0	1	8	4.71	34	-82
28	Johnny Manziel	33	168	1	0	3	24	4.56	36	-92
29	Kirk Cousins	40	217	1	1	1	4	4.59	41	-104
30	Eli Manning	40	213	2	2	0	0	4.08	40	-122

Eli Manning threw for 213 yards and 2 TDs and took zero sacks in a win…. and he was the “worst” statistical quarterback of the week! That’s nuts. As it turns out, it’s the second best ANY/A week since the merger. The table below shows the league average ANY/A in each year-week from 1970 to 2014:

Week	Rk	Tms	Cmp	Att	Gross Pyd	TD	INT	Sk	SkYd	ANY/A
2010-10	1	28	648	1032	8090	56	22	54	355	7.24
2014-4	2	26	600	925	7225	54	30	48	261	6.88
2014-3	3	32	728	1108	8221	52	22	54	313	6.85
1990-6	4	24	426	749	6006	45	23	53	393	6.83
1991-11	5	28	548	904	7135	45	23	59	424	6.83
2014-6	6	30	660	1080	8056	56	23	82	447	6.62
2014-8	7	30	693	1081	8260	52	28	73	450	6.58
1980-7	8	28	486	796	6629	44	35	48	397	6.56
2011-1	9	32	685	1116	8420	54	24	89	578	6.51
1989-2	10	28	566	927	7586	54	41	56	424	6.51
2009-5	11	28	573	908	6669	41	19	60	356	6.49
2014-7	12	30	636	999	7309	54	21	76	484	6.47
2011-2	13	32	682	1100	8433	54	33	68	487	6.46
2011-13	14	32	613	1028	7698	45	22	74	494	6.46
2012-9	15	28	591	938	6865	39	19	59	359	6.45
1995-12	16	30	630	1007	7541	57	30	67	432	6.42
1991-12	17	28	547	908	6751	48	22	63	484	6.42
2004-3	18	28	569	927	6892	36	16	77	447	6.42
2012-17	19	32	591	995	7200	49	20	69	461	6.41
2007-3	20	32	649	1022	7791	45	28	69	486	6.37
2013-9	21	26	576	939	7046	44	27	61	367	6.34
2008-8	22	28	614	981	7136	37	21	53	376	6.34
2010-3	23	32	689	1095	8134	50	32	59	389	6.33
2004-9	24	28	515	862	6099	44	17	62	375	6.32
2011-9	25	28	568	951	6766	43	24	45	254	6.32
2012-2	26	32	664	1064	7899	49	28	73	453	6.30
2013-5	27	28	595	977	7503	42	27	77	504	6.28
2002-10	28	28	629	998	7203	39	23	54	339	6.28
2008-17	29	32	596	970	6912	40	23	48	289	6.28
2009-11	30	32	667	1080	7826	52	29	58	420	6.28
1994-2	31	28	586	950	7207	50	34	57	361	6.27
1990-5	32	24	433	761	5897	43	27	57	412	6.27
2004-8	33	28	565	930	6786	50	30	48	328	6.25
2008-6	34	28	559	883	6597	35	24	56	353	6.24
2011-5	35	26	534	882	6583	45	28	57	361	6.24
2013-14	36	32	669	1114	7759	64	27	65	465	6.24
2014-1	37	32	747	1163	8297	48	25	67	462	6.24
2013-1	38	32	748	1183	8710	63	34	81	562	6.23
2012-4	39	30	686	1088	8206	47	32	74	482	6.22
2013-13	40	32	678	1100	8184	48	29	79	521	6.21
1996-13	41	30	639	1048	7701	46	31	57	376	6.20
2014-5	42	30	660	1076	7678	49	27	62	389	6.20
2014-13	43	32	690	1080	8046	54	31	79	548	6.20
2013-2	44	32	741	1213	8693	48	26	77	495	6.19
2012-10	45	28	603	952	6826	47	25	60	382	6.18
1992-7	46	26	475	806	6193	36	23	67	482	6.18
2014-11	47	28	605	967	6957	40	26	53	303	6.16
2007-17	48	32	651	1065	7191	58	22	61	434	6.15
2006-14	49	32	601	999	7251	42	28	58	350	6.13
2008-1	50	32	588	958	6696	39	17	68	429	6.12

So what’s driving the great ANY/A this week? There’s a pretty simple answer to that, too. It’s a really high touchdown rate and a really low interception rate. The highest TD/INT ratio for the NFL in any single week came in week 17 of the 2007 season, when teams threw 58 touchdowns and only 22 interceptions. That’s a 2.64 TD/INT ratio.

Well, this week, teams teams threw 48 touchdowns and just 18 interceptions. That’s a 2.67 touchdown/interception ratio, the highest single ratio in any week in NFL history.

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