Goff goes 18/18 for 292 yards 2 TDs 0 INT, but not a perfect rating

[SeahawkFever]

If it was meant for seasonal use, what was the point of the limiters in the first place? I'm pretty sure there has never been a qualifying player-season that triggered any of the limiters for any of the component stats. I don't even know if Joe Burrow's 2020 LSU season reaches any.

It was invented in 1973, and my best guess is that it was designed so that those who had a slide rule could calculate it perhaps.

[JohnTurney]

If it was meant for seasonal use, what was the point of the limiters in the first place? I'm pretty sure there has never been a qualifying player-season that triggered any of the limiters for any of the component stats. I don't even know if Joe Burrow's 2020 LSU season reaches any.

(Edit: He does not, although he comes close in Comp% and TD%. His rating was 143.7)

I think there were previously -but extremely rarely. Sid Luckamn exceeded the TD% -- but one time ...

There were some INT% above 9.5

No one was close to 77.5% completions so maybe they didn't think that would ever happen in a season, Baugh was most at 70%

But as to why? I don't know. The Hall was created it with a committee headed by Don Smith. Seymour was part of it and Don Weiss of the NFL.

I never spoke to weiss ... Don Smith said the internet was as I mentioned to make 4 categories roughly equal. And they wanted a system that
didn't exclude guys who didn't throw. In 1971/72 when they met passing for really good teams was dropping, so guys like Griese would not be included in total yards, and total TD passes, so they wanted percentages for everything ... and yards/att has been used for year, sometimes even the entire thing --- the avg yg per gain guy was the pass champion. It was felt that Namath or Van Brocklin got favored there.

As for limits? I don't know, but really as much as it's ideas that 67 was 'average' and 100 was outstanding or excellent, I don't remember the verbiage --- the idea was that a scale of 100 is something people could grasp on to, like in school.

Limits, though, maybe the committee, and as far as I know it was just 3 guys ... didn't think that far ahead and also, didn't anticipate the changes.

But also remember there are floors, too. Not just ceilings. Would love to talk more about it but only had casual conversations with Smith and Siwoff and I think Siwoff was there just to make sure Elias knew what the NFL wanted so he could make sure he got it right. Not sure he had a lot of input as to the formulas.

Smith said it was not a "rating" he said it was a "passing statistic" ... and that people took it too far --when I spoke to him was maybe mid-1990s when Steve Young was setting records and there was some media attention about it.