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[QUOTE="Millhouse, post: 1141468, member: 78"]
Here's the formula.  It's a yards per attempt stat that factors in td and int.

[url]http://www.pro-football-reference.com/about/glossary.htm[/url]

Since passing changes over time, I'm just comparing their ranks by season.  it's relative to your peers. Some surprising results here.

Average ranking by player.  It's an average of the yearly ranks so 2010 and 2012 are equally weighted even though he threw a million times more in 2012.  I do it that way se we can go season by season and compare to other guys from that season

Some of these guys only played one year, Anderson, #11, and Robinson benefit from playing so bad that they got pulled and those worst years don't make it into the rankings

Philcox 5
Scharr 5
McNabb 8
McPherson 12
Mason  16
Graves 18
Robinson 34
Anderson 48
Nassib 58
Nunes  66
Patterson 90
Dantley 91
Hunt 91
Paulus 97

Paulus is a good example for a huge difference between regular passer rating and this stat.  Ints factor in more here.

Best individual years
Year ANY/A Rank Player
1987 1 McPherson
1992 1 Graves
1985 2 McPherson
1995 2 McNabb
1997 4 McNabb
1988 5 Philcox
1989 5 Scharr
1998 8 McNabb
1994 16 Mason
1996 18 McNabb
1993 20 Graves
1990 22 Graves
2001 24 Anderson
1991 27 Graves
2012 33 Nassib
1986 34 McPherson
2007 34 Robinson
1999 41 Nunes
2006 60 Patterson
2010 67 Nassib
2014 70 Hunt
2003 71 Anderson
2011 74 Nassib
2000 76 Nunes
2002 80 Nunes
2008 91 Dantley
2009 97 Paulus
2004 98 Patterson
2005 111 Patterson
2013 112 Hunt

Nassib's 2012 season isn't in the top half.  Surprising.

I wish they had thrown the ball more back in the day
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