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In 1960, the National Football League introduced a rating system in order to end the age old argument of “who is the best quarterback“. Unfortunately, the formula was poor and the rankings were not in agreement with public consent. As a result, that system was replaced in 1973 with the one that we use today. However, the NFL was not forthcoming with the formula. Several sports-minded mathematicians published articles or books in which they reverse-engineered the formula. They tried to deduce the formula from the published ratings, and what they believed would be the logical numbers to input to the formula. The NFL has recently published the exact sequence of steps and computations needed to calculate the exact value of the q