Greg Cote’s NFL passer ratings

TEXANS’ SCHAUB HAS ALL-TIME RECORD WEEK; P.MANNING TAKES OVER SEASON LEAD

Big week and big news in The Miami Herald’s Passer Success System (PASS) quarterback rankings. The Texans’ Matt Schaub captured the Week 11 title with an all-time record 71.35 points. That’s the best in the 15 years of the chart, topping the previous high of 66.00 points by Tom Brady in 2009. And at the top of the chart, Peyton Manning overtakes Matt Ryan for the season lead. With byes now out of the way, it is looking like a four- or perhaps five-man race for the season crown. Meantime Dolphin Ryan Tannehill falls two spots to 27th place. Our rankings use a simple formula unchanged since their inception in 1998, factoring accuracy, yardage, TD/INT ratio and team result. Most ratings including the NFL’s are complicated and percent-based, allowing a player to miss half a season injured and still win a title, while ours are cumulative and place a premium on productive QBs who avoid injury or benching. Our updated 2012 rankings appear in this space every Sunday.

Miami Herald PASS rankings

Player	LW	WK11	Season
1. Peyton Manning, DEN	2	23.50	370.15
2. Matt Ryan, ATL	1	15.05	361.60
3. Tom Brady, NE	4	43.55	356.80
4. Aaron Rodgers, GB	2	3-.80	351.85
5. Drew Brees, NO	5	37.95	334.30
6. Tony Romo, DAL	8	43.65	306.80
7. Matt Schaub, HOU	14	71,35	304.00
8. Ben Roethlisberger, PIT	6	DNP	278.70
9. Matthew Stafford, DET	7	5.30	278.30
10. Andy Dalton, CIN	10	29.50	277.45
11. Carson Palmer, OAK	9	19.60	273.75
12. Philip Rivers, SD	11	20.90	268.10
13. Joe Flacco, BAL	15	21.20	253.75
14. Robert Griffin III, WAS	19	40.00	251.65
15. Eli Manning, NYG	12	BYE	247.05
16. Christian Ponder, MIN	13	BYE	239.35
17. Josh Freeman, TB	18	24.40	238.25
18. Andrew Luck, IND	17	17.70	236.25
19. Ryan Fitzpatrick, BUF	20	20.40	230.95
20. Alex Smith, SF	16	DNP	228.55
27. Ryan Tannehill, MIA	25	4.05	156.50