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QBR Season Leaders: Week 11

Updated: November 22, 2011, 9:06 AM 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 season, a Total QBR of 65 or better is roughly Pro Bowl level, and a rating of 75-plus is MVP level. For more about the methodology and statistics behind Total QBR, see here.

Aaron Rodgers (82.9 Total QBR against the Buccaneers) saw his season Total QBR decline a bit, but he still leads by a sizable margin over No. 2 Drew Brees. Rodgers has now posted a Total QBR of at least 80 in nine of his 10 games this season. No other QB has more than five such games so far this year.

Tony Romo used a solid road performance against the Redskins (82.9 Total QBR) to move slightly ahead of Tom Brady into the top three.

Below is the full breakdown of Total QBR and its component statistics for the 35 NFL QBs on pace for 250 action plays this season.

Weekly Leaders: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7
Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13
Season Leaders: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7
Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13

2011 Total QBR Leaders

No. Name Pass EPA Run EPA Sack EPA Pen. EPA Total EPA Action Plays Clutch Wt Avg Total QBR
1 Aaron Rodgers 84.6 4.6 -14.4 3.0 77.9 455 0.8 87.2
2 Drew Brees 80.5 -0.1 -11.8 1.9 70.5 487 0.9 77.6
3 Tony Romo 71.8 2.3 -10.3 0.6 64.4 421 1.0 76.1
4 Tom Brady 84.6 0.1 -17.2 1.8 69.3 476 1.1 72.9
5 Matt Hasselbeck 51.6 -0.1 -12.1 4.9 44.3 400 0.9 71.2
6 Ben Roethlisberger 64.9 2.5 -21.8 1.6 47.2 452 0.9 68.7
7 Matt Schaub 50.1 -0.7 -11.7 0.7 38.4 352 1.0 66.7
8 Matt Ryan 51.6 3.5 -17.7 10.3 47.7 459 1.0 64.8
9 Eli Manning 71.4 -4.1 -19.4 4.5 52.4 442 1.2 63.8
10 Jay Cutler 41.5 -1.3 -12.8 2.9 30.3 404 0.9 59.5
11 Michael Vick 35.9 7.7 -8.9 -0.6 34.1 421 1.0 58.1
12 Jason Campbell 23.9 0.0 -6.1 1.4 19.2 216 1.1 58.1
13 Matt Moore 29.2 3.5 -17.7 3.3 18.3 238 1.0 57.4
14 Matthew Stafford 53.7 -1.1 -17.8 0.6 35.3 476 1.0 56.9
15 Ryan Fitzpatrick 28.7 -4.1 -7.0 8.9 26.5 413 0.9 55.6
16 Cam Newton 45.9 11.9 -22.7 2.8 37.9 511 1.1 53.7
17 Joe Flacco 40.4 0.5 -19.2 5.9 27.7 485 0.9 52.0
18 Philip Rivers 38.2 1.1 -17.7 4.8 26.5 475 1.0 50.2
19 Alex Smith 43.1 -1.0 -21.4 -0.4 20.2 374 1.0 49.2
20 Matt Cassel 31.0 5.2 -18.2 -1.2 16.8 355 0.9 48.8
21 Josh Freeman 28.1 6.1 -10.3 -2.2 21.7 477 0.9 48.6
22 Andy Dalton 32.8 0.2 -11.6 3.1 24.4 417 1.2 48.2
23 Kyle Orton 15.8 2.1 -10.9 3.4 10.4 192 1.1 47.9
24 Christian Ponder 9.2 5.7 -9.5 1.6 7.0 188 0.8 46.5
25 Colt McCoy 32.2 -0.6 -17.5 5.2 19.3 472 1.0 45.1
26 Rex Grossman 27.5 -0.7 -15.3 1.7 13.2 290 1.2 44.7
27 Donovan McNabb 10.4 5.1 -8.7 0.4 7.1 206 0.9 44.3
28 Tarvaris Jackson 26.0 2.3 -20.3 1.7 9.7 372 0.9 41.3
29 Mark Sanchez 25.0 -2.9 -21.4 4.3 5.1 442 1.0 36.3
30 Tim Tebow 2.4 10.1 -10.2 -0.9 1.4 213 0.9 35.1
31 Kevin Kolb 26.7 0.6 -30.6 3.3 0.0 297 1.1 33.1
32 Sam Bradford 19.8 -2.6 -23.5 0.2 -6.1 383 0.9 28.4
33 John Beck 4.9 2.2 -9.1 -1.1 -3.1 175 0.8 26.9
34 Curtis Painter 8.0 -0.3 -17.2 2.6 -6.9 266 1.0 26.4
35 Blaine Gabbert 5.0 -1.4 -20.2 1.8 -15.0 316 1.1 22.4.
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" through pass attempts by the QB.
Run EPA: Clutch-weighted "expected points added" through scrambles, designed rushes and fumbles/fumble returns on running plays by the QB.
Sack EPA: Clutch-weighted "expected points added" through sacks and fumbles/fumble returns on passing plays by the QB.
Penalty EPA: Clutch-weighted "expected points added" on penalties by the QB.
Total EPA: Total clutch-weighted "expected points added" by the QB.
Note: Any perceived ties in QBR are broken by going to the next decimal point.

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