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

by Chase Stuart on November 10, 2015

in Passing, Statgeekery, Trivia

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.

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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:

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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

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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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