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QBR Season Leaders: Week 3

Updated: October 6, 2011, 2:12 PM ET
By ESPN Stats & Information

Total QBR is a quarterback rating that takes into account all of a quarterback's contributions (passing, rushing, sacks, fumbles, penalties) to his team's scoring and winning and summarizes them into one number on a 0-100 scale, on which 50 is average.

Total QBR

ESPN introduces Total QBR:

For a game, the number can be interpreted as a percentile, so a score of 80 means a quarterback's performance is in the 80th percentile of all quarterbacks' games. For more about the methodology and statistics behind Total QBR, see here.

Tom Brady of the Patriots and Ryan Fitzpatrick of the Bills remain 1-2, though Fitzpatrick closed the gap thanks to a higher Week 3 score than Brady in Buffalo's 34-31 victory over New England. Fitzpatrick has been remarkably consistent so far, posting three consecutive weeks of 80-plus QBRs. Brady has three consecutive weeks of 70-plus QBRs.

Below is the full breakdown of Total QBR and its component statistics for the 31 NFL QBs with a minimum of 75 action plays through Monday, Sept. 26.

Results shown here may differ from those published earlier on ESPN.com. These are due to small errors in evaluating home/road differences that were corrected prior to Week 4. ESPN regrets the error.

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2011 Total QBR Leaders

Rank Name Pass EPA Rush EPA Sack EPA Pen. EPA Total EPA Action Plays Clutch Weight Avg Total QBR
1 Tom Brady 33.5 0.1 -1.9 -1.2 30.5 157 1.0 86.0
2 Ryan Fitzpatrick 23.7 -1.7 -0.5 3.9 25.5 139 1.0 83.4
3 Aaron Rodgers 24.7 -1.9 -2.7 -0.7 19.4 137 0.9 79.1
4 Matt Hasselbeck 31.4 -1.1 -7.7 0.6 23.1 130 1.1 78.3
5 Drew Brees 26.9 -0.9 -4.4 0.4 22.0 151 1.0 76.5
6 Tony Romo 26.0 -0.8 -1.6 0.5 24.1 129 1.3 76.2
7 Matt Schaub 18.8 -0.5 -3.1 -0.1 15.1 111 1.0 74.7
8 Matthew Stafford 20.0 -0.9 -4.0 0.2 15.2 141 1.0 67.7
9 Jason Campbell 16.8 1.3 -4.5 1.3 14.9 113 1.2 67.5
10 Chad Henne 15.4 7.0 -8.4 1.2 15.3 144 1.1 63.6
11 Eli Manning 16.3 -0.4 -5.7 -0.3 9.8 110 1.0 62.0
12 Josh Freeman 9.6 3.6 -3.8 0.2 9.7 138 0.9 57.8
13 Joe Flacco 8.9 1.1 -2.7 -0.2 7.1 138 0.7 56.2
14 Ben Roethlisberger 14.3 -0.3 -8.8 2.2 7.5 139 0.9 52.4
15 Philip Rivers 14.7 -2.5 -4.8 1.9 9.4 155 1.0 51.6
16 Kyle Orton 15.1 1.6 -10.6 3.7 9.8 140 1.2 50.9
17 Alex Smith 17.1 -0.5 -10.3 0.9 7.3 111 1.2 50.1
18 Rex Grossman 16.2 -0.5 -9.1 2.5 9.1 135 1.3 48.5
19 Cam Newton 21.8 -4.4 -8.1 0.4 9.7 165 1.2 48.1
20 Colt McCoy 7.6 2.7 -3.9 2.6 9.0 138 1.3 48.0
21 Kevin Kolb 21.3 -0.6 -14.4 1.4 7.6 122 1.4 46.6
22 Donovan McNabb 4.1 5.2 -4.7 0.5 5.0 109 1.1 46.0
23 Michael Vick 15.2 -4.0 -4.3 -1.0 5.9 126 1.2 45.4
24 Matt Ryan 14.1 0.1 -11.6 0.9 3.5 152 0.9 40.5
25 Sam Bradford 6.5 -3.1 -5.0 2.2 0.6 138 0.8 34.6
26 Mark Sanchez 9.5 -1.2 -9.8 2.0 0.6 140 1.1 34.1
27 Tarvaris Jackson 8.9 2.5 -10.5 -0.7 0.2 134 0.9 33.6
28 Jay Cutler 8.0 0.6 -8.2 -0.3 0.1 146 0.8 33.4
29 Andy Dalton 1.8 -1.1 -6.2 2.1 -3.4 110 1.3 26.5
30 Matt Cassel 1.8 -0.3 -3.9 -0.3 -2.7 95 0.7 22.8
31 Kerry Collins -2.9 -0.8 -6.1 1.0 -8.8 116 0.8 13.6
32 Luke McCown -1.5 -0.6 -3.1 0.3 -4.9 54 0.8 10.3
EPA: Expected points added (could be positive or negative) that occur as a result of an action play.
Pass EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through pass attempts.
Run EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through scrambles, designed rushes and fumbles/fumble returns on running plays.
Sack EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through sacks and fumbles/fumble returns on passing plays.
Penalty EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB on penalties.
Total EPA: Total clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB.
Action Plays: Plays on which quarterback has a non-zero expected points contribution. Includes most plays that are not handoffs.
Clutch Wt Avg: Average clutch weight on QB action plays. Smaller than 1 means QB was in relatively fewer clutch situations; greater than 1 means he was in more.
Total QBR: Total Quarterback Rating, which values quarterback on all play types on a 0-to-100 scale.

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