Talk:List of NFL players who have posted a perfect passer rating

Brett Favre December 22, 2003
This was the MNF game the day after his father passed. I thought he had a perfect qb rating but was surprised it wasn't on here. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Here's the stats i found: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200312220rai.htm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.31.156 (talk) 06:08, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

he'd also need to be added to the 30 attempts lists right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.31.156 (talk) 06:33, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

hmmmmm interestingly nfl website has all the same stats but displays 154.9. http://www.nfl.com/players/brettfavre/gamelogs?id=FAV540222&season=2003  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.31.156 (talk) 06:40, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

yeeeeeeeeeeeeep i'm just 100% wrong has stats are actually a 154.9. still a great game though, haha. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.31.156 (talk) 06:44, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Garrard's perfect rating
I believe that this shouldn't count because it's a preseason game. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.39.21 (talk) 17:11, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Passer-rating calculator
A calculator to simplify things: Prime Computing. &mdash; Tonyfuchs1019 (09.23.07 16:52 EST)

Incorrect highest passer rating
the highes attainable passer rating is actually 158.33 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.172.94.62 (talk) 23:47, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * True, but passer rating is always rounded to one decimal place. Chaz Beckett 12:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Or if you want to be technically accurate, it is 158.3, where the 3 has an overbar, also displayed as 158.33333333... NjtoTX (talk) 20:12, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Tom Brady
Take off Tom Brady for the time being, he is coming into the game. I might do it for you guys. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ppierce365 (talk • contribs) 19:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)


 * There's no reason to add anyone to the list until their game is completed for exactly this reason. The information is not accurate until the game is finished, and inaccurate information shouldn't be added to Wikipedia. --Mugsywwiii (talk) 20:13, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Interceptions
Is there any way to get 158.3 without throwing exactly zero interceptions? That column seems redundant. Maybe just a note at the top that none of these quarterbacks threw any interceptions in the listed games? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.40.137 (talk) 00:44, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


 * That's a good point, it's impossible to achieve a perfect passer rating if any interceptions are thrown. I'd support removing the column and adding a note regarding ints. Chaz Beckett 02:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Scott Hunter is listed for a game in which it says he has 1 interception. Either that game should not be listed, or the 1 interception is an error NjtoTX (talk) 20:10, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Perfect and Zero Passer rating
It says Chris Chandler was the only quarterback to have a passer rating of zero in one game, and a perfect passer rating in another. it also says on the zero passer rating page that terry bradshaw had a rating of zero, while on this page it says that he also had a perfect passer rating. someone verify and fix please —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.49.58.95 (talk) 05:44, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Odds of a perfect game
I think there is some value to having this section, but it currently is not worded very well. I'll edit it, but I want to explain the detailed calculation here for everyone to understand.

Page 913 of the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia (2nd Ed.) states there have been 13,865 regular season NFL games and 434 playoff games. That's before the 2007 season, which of course featured 256 regular season games and 11 more playoff games. So adding them up, there have been 14,121 reg. season games and 445 postseason. That's what we'll use for the "before the start of 2008" number. --Smk42 (talk) 00:12, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

qualification
What is the qualification to get a passing rating? I know when a RB/WR/P goes 1/1 and a TD its not counted but yesterday Peton Manning went 7/7 95yards and a TD. Should that be counted or wasnt there enough passes. On NFL.com it only counts if they had 14 passes or more. Is that the qualification 121.214.219.124 (talk) 06:08, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure it doesn't. He went 7-for-7 on 12/28/08, but the heading says a quarterback needs at least 10 passes to qualify. Playing only one series doesn't get you a perfect game, I don't think.--Mike Selinker (talk) 03:06, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The criterion really ought to be a minimum number of completed passes rather than a minimum number of attempts. You can see that while 8-for-10 makes the list, 9-for-9, (which is unarguably a better percentage) does not. WHPratt (talk) 13:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The more positive things you can do on a greater number of attempts is what counts. A guy could be 9-for-9, but what if he had to throw another pass? If it was intercepted, that would end his chance at a perfect game. Any time your attempts go up, the chance of something bad (incompletion, interception) goes up as well, and that is why the NFL always goes by attempts. Smk42 (talk) 17:09, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I understand the general argument, but the fact remains that someone who is 8-for-8 with 125 yd and 2 TD could make the list by throwing a couple of passes away.WHPratt (talk) 12:24, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, but why would a person having that kind of game stop throwing after 8 attempts? Injury? Meh, what I like about 10 attempts is they make it a guarantee you can't achieve 158.3 by playing one drive. Because 1 TD (10% TD%) can't get it done, and you can't throw 2 TDs on one drive. I like that part of it. Now a second qualifier I would like to see would be a minimum of 200 yards (so 10 attempts OR 200 yards), just because barring highly unlikely penalties, no QB is going to throw for 200 yards on just two drives. It should take at least 3. And this would still add just one "perfect" game in the last 50 years. Bart Starr went 8/9 for 201 yards, 2 TDs in 1960. I'm sure the number of 10 attempts came from the league using 10 attempts/game in the 70's to qualify for rate statistics, and that's when this passer rating was invented. Smk42 (talk) 12:52, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Number of opportunities for perfect games
From the article: "These accomplishments are rare in the NFL. Before the start of the 2008 NFL season, there have been 14,121 regular season games played and 445 postseason games,[49] meaning that NFL passers have had over 14,000 opportunities to reach the perfect rating milestone." Now I'm no expert on football, but my understanding is that in a typical game there are two teams and each team has its own quarterback, so aren't we really talking about something in the neighborhood of 29,000 opportunities to reach the perfect rating milestone? Capedia (talk) 07:23, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems so.--Mike Selinker (talk) 03:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me. Dayewalker (talk) 03:13, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Drew Brees
Boy, are you guys quick. I went to brush my teeth with a minute left in the game and when I came back three editors had teamed up to incorporate Drew Brees perfecto into the article. Matchups 04:41, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Future updates
In the future please wait until the game is over before adding the game to the table. It's pointless to have to revert all the info when it's not even a perfect game. --Smk42 (talk) 03:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion
Why not add a column in which the rating is recalculated without enforcing the maximum limits on each category? That would show which perfect games were "more perfect" than others, as opposed to a long list wherein everybody is tied for first? Not in any way "official," but it could be interesting. WHPratt (talk) 20:35, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Most perfect passing games...
Should we tally them up and see who has the most, or is it even worth mentioning?98.220.58.62 (talk) 02:01, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Only QB with 2 in one season
Ben Roethlisbergher should be listed under the section where the yardage leaders and such are as the only QB to have 2 perfect games in the same season. Pdonettes (talk) 03:24, 22 January 2011 (UTC) pdonettes

The article says only Roethlisberger has had more than one perfect rating in a season, this is untrue. Peyton Manning had 2 in the 2003 season and 1 in the 2003 playoffs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.225.106 (talk) 22:07, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Monday Night Football
Is it really that important to include here? It has nothing to do with the game itself. --Ulkomaalainen (talk) 05:01, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I removed it since it's not noteworthy, unlike a playoff game. ~ Dissident93  (talk) 05:15, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Using college passer rating
"If using the NCAA formula for QB passer rating, the performance by Frank Ryan on December 12, 1964 against the New York Giants would be highest rated perfect game. Ryan's 12 completions on 13 attempts for 202 yards and 5 touchdowns would result in a NCAA QB pass rating of 349.75, heavily influenced by Ryan's 38.5% TD percentage. It would also result in an NFL pass rating of 309.46 if the NFL formula were unconstrained."

This seems to be useless to the conversation. The NFL doesn't use the nccaa formula at all.So should we also use the High School formula to see whos the highest nfl rated qb  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cornersss (talk • contribs) 21:22, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * A list of 65 people -- all tied for first place, is getting to be a bit too long. What harm would there be in adding some alternative measures to separate the performances in terms of relative quality? WHPratt (talk) 16:22, 29 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Because this is not a list of "best passer performances" but of people reaching the (admittedly artificial) "perfect NFL passer rating". Otherwise we would have to scout for other performances which may be better by unconstrained NFL or NCAA or Whatever formula. E.g. a performance with a slightly lower than cutoff point average yardage but a very high TD rating could easily surpass one which "just made every maximum". And this is a list (as seen in the title), not a ranking, so they're not tied for first place because none are given. But to give a Wikipedia reason against it: this kind of sorting would be original research. --Ulkomaalainen (talk) 00:13, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

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More Perfect Games
I found a few more perfect passer ratings from the 1950's:


 * Otto Graham (Cleveland), 10/10/1954: 14-for-18, 266 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT
 * George Ratterman (Cleveland), 11/7/1954: 10-for-11, 208 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT
 * Milt Plum (Cleveland), 10/5/1958: 13-for-14, 197 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT
 * Mack Reynolds (Chicago), 12/6/1959: 8-for-10, 170 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT

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Tua
Tua Tagovailoa just had a perfect game 2601:197:4380:920:95CF:7433:A95C:3321 (talk) 00:38, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Www.nfl.com: Brock Purdy was immaculate in Sunday's 27-14 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, going 21 of 25 for 333 yards with three touchdowns for a perfect 158.3 passer rating. The second-year pro downplayed being the first 49ers quarterback with a perfect passer rating since Joe Montana in Week 10, 1989 (19 pass attempts).Nov 20, 2023 2605:59C8:311F:C910:5CFB:6735:D5FF:8AB5 (talk) 18:47, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Love Perfect passer rating
Jordan Love just had a perfect passer rating in his first post season game. Nevermind. He messed it up at the end.. 2600:8804:158A:8800:B0E9:357F:24AC:85DC (talk) 01:47, 15 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I corrected this. MT458 (talk) 05:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)