Pure Programmer
Project: Football Passer Rating (NFL)
In US football quarterbacks are rated on their performance based on a specific formula that combines statistics such as number of passing yards, number of touchdowns and number of interceptions. In the NFL the professional football passer rating formula is:
where
- ATT
- Number of passing attempts
- COMP
- Number of completions
- YDS
- Passing yards
- TD
- Touchdown passes
- INT
- Interceptions
Source: [[Passer Rating]]
The program should prompt the user for the five input values above and print the passer rating to one decimal place.
See: [[NFL Player Statistics]] for actual statistics that you can test with.
Output
$ python FootballPasserRating1.py
Number of attempts: 497
Number of completions: 340
Number of touchdown passes: 33
Number of interceptions: 5
Number of passing yards: 4208
Passer rating: 112.3
$ python FootballPasserRating1.py
Number of attempts: 531
Number of completions: 353
Number of touchdown passes: 27
Number of interceptions: 10
Number of passing yards: 3781
Passer rating: 96.3